Sydney (Australia), Australia
A light hi up looking like a star but moving thought maybe was a plane but real hi up.. ((Starlink satellites?)
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-20
- Where
- Sydney (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- -33.868, 151.207 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sydney-australia-2020-cebe1d
Part of a wave
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
- One of 51 documented reports from Sydney (Australia), Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
- Australia logged 15 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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