CaseOval2012
Sofia (Bulgaria), Bulgaria
Bright orange object with small aura, flying from SSE to NNW.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-04
- Where
- Sofia (Bulgaria), Bulgaria
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 sec.
- Geo
- 42.698, 23.324 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sofia-bulgaria-2012-2c2633
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
- Sofia (Bulgaria), Bulgaria shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Bulgaria in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.