UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Hong Kong (pilot report; in-flight), Hong Kong

Airline Captain and 1st Officer witness a bright blue, stationary, object in the northern sky, perhaps at 60,000' altitude.

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-17
Where
Hong Kong (pilot report; in-flight), Hong Kong
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
22.278, 114.175 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-hong-kong-pilot-report-in-flight-2016-848422
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hong Kong (pilot report; in-flight), Hong Kong in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hong Kong logged 1 sightings in 2016.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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