Madeira (Pretoria) (South Africa), South Africa
Sighting of a unidentified craft hovering over Madeira Harbor, Photo's taken from live webcam. ((NUFORC Note: Water on lens. PD))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1380s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-12-29
- Where
- Madeira (Pretoria) (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 23
- Geo
- -7.591, -37.539 · fallback
- Slug
- oval-over-madeira-pretoria-south-africa-2010-7df4bd
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Madeira (Pretoria) (South Africa), South Africa.
- This case is one of 11 South Africa reports filed in 2010.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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