Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia
3 balck objects to the S,E, one big 2 small, going aprox 300kmph. weird!
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-01
- Where
- Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- -33.868, 151.207 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sydney-nsw-australia-2004-909f37
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 46 reports logged in Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia.
- This case is one of 54 Australia reports filed in 2004.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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