Bethany Beach, DE, USA
Round glowing orange object, seen by myself, my daughter and 2 other people who were watching the meteorite showers
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-12
- Where
- Bethany Beach, DE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.540, -75.055 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bethany-beach-de-2015-9e12e5
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Bethany Beach, DE.
- This case is one of 30 Delaware reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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