Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria), Bulgaria
On 12th June 2009, at around 21:25 on the Istanbul Meridian (19:25 on Greenwich), I saw moving rapidly with constant speed a big sphere
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-12
- Where
- Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria), Bulgaria
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7-10 seconds
- Geo
- 43.081, 25.629 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-veliko-tarnovo-bulgaria-2009-8fcfef
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
- Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria), Bulgaria has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 3 reports from Bulgaria.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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