Chennai (India), India
Faintly visible shape-shifting UFO with no illumination at a height of 15000 ft, moving erratically over Chennai, India
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-09
- Where
- Chennai (India), India
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- >40 minutes
- Geo
- 13.088, 80.278 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-chennai-india-2020-25a2a4
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
- One of 14 documented reports from Chennai (India), India in the UFOMYST archive.
- India logged 23 sightings in 2020.
- Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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