CaseLight2011

Pretoria (South Africa), South Africa

Unknown bright star-like light moving over Pretoria, RSA

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-19
Where
Pretoria (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Light
Duration
+-4 minutes
Geo
-25.745, 28.188 · exact
Slug
light-over-pretoria-south-africa-2011-da7d8a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Pretoria (South Africa), South Africa shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from South Africa in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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