CaseUnknown2013

Quito (Ecuador), Ecuador

The outline and shape of the craft, disappearing behind the hotel.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-18
Where
Quito (Ecuador), Ecuador
Shape
Unknown
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
-0.230, -78.525 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-quito-ecuador-2013-c87948
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

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Quito (Ecuador), Ecuador.
  • This case is one of 1 Ecuador reports filed in 2013.

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.