CaseOval2008
Clayton, DE, USA
Black ring 20' diameter in back yard.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-14
- Where
- Clayton, DE, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 39.291, -75.634 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-clayton-de-2008-a10119
Wave
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Clayton, DE.
- This case is one of 12 Delaware reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.