China
Pictures of saucer taken on Kodachrome film, negatives available, 4 red lines from each axis clearly observable.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-06
- Where
- China
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-2004-a80deb
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
- 6 reports came from China in 2004.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.