Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
At first it looked like two baloons spinning around each other I couldn't tell just what it was so I ran to get my camera so I could st
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-16
- Where
- Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- -34.929, 138.599 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-adelaide-south-australia-2005-41a8bf
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
- Adelaide (South Australia), Australia shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Australia in 2005.
Report
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