CaseCigar2021

Sydney (Australia), Australia

2 craft seen looked initially like a satellite had reflective metal that was reflecting a gold color probably from the sun pulled out c

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-20
Where
Sydney (Australia), Australia
Shape
Cigar
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
-33.868, 151.207 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-sydney-australia-2021-bc4e14
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

  • Sydney (Australia), Australia has 51 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 16 reports from Australia.
  • The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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