Canberra (Australia), Australia
Object stops still in the sky, changes trajectory and flies back in the opposite direction only to disappear.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-04
- Where
- Canberra (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- -35.283, 149.128 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-canberra-australia-2005-f6d122
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
- Canberra (Australia), Australia shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Australia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.