CaseOval2012

Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada

Three orange lighting objects came from south to north at the sky all over Ottawa and went away.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-20
Where
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
45.411, -75.698 · exact
Slug
oval-over-ottawa-canada-on-2012-00212a
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

  • One of 123 documented reports from Ottawa (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 304 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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