Chatham (Canada), ON, Canada
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 While driving to Chatham from Ridgetown on the 401 at apx. 4:50 pm I noticed a jet above the clouds on the
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-12-14
- Where
- Chatham (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.412, -82.185 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chatham-canada-on-2004-c2f805
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
- Chatham (Canada), Canada has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 362 reports from Canada.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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