CaseTeardrop2011

Japan, Japan

The link is to a CNN video and about 1:29 minutes in the UFO can be seen lifting up and moving rapidly.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 13s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-11
Where
Japan, Japan
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
13 seconds
Geo
40.993, -75.910 · fallback
Slug
teardrop-over-japan-2011-a2bdf6
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…

In context

  • Japan, Japan has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 2 reports from Japan.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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