Chennai (India), India
White spherical object revolving around its own axis having a random motion; from Chennai. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-02-13
- Where
- Chennai (India), India
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- one and half hour
- Geo
- 13.088, 80.278 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chennai-india-2009-0c0381
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- One of 14 documented reports from Chennai (India), India in the UFOMYST archive.
- India logged 13 sightings in 2009.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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