Lower Hells Gate (Dutch Antilles), Netherlands Antilles
2 lights the size & brightness of Venus appeared in the NE sky from 17 38 N, 63 13 W. Lights lasted about 2 minutes, disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-15
- Where
- Lower Hells Gate (Dutch Antilles), Netherlands Antilles
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
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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
- Lower Hells Gate (Dutch Antilles), Netherlands Antilles shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Netherlands Antilles in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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