UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2005

Coquitlam/Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada

Long green bright trail streaking west and low across the sky. Possible meteor. It was approx 0.5km long. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor. 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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 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
2005-03-12
Where
Coquitlam/Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
49.285, -122.782 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-coquitlam-vancouver-canada-bc-2005-83d551
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Coquitlam/Vancouver (Canada), Canada has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 238 reports from Canada.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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