CaseCircle2008

Canberra (Australia), Australia

((HOAX)) about 5 pm a round silver shaped ufo about 6 feet across at 5000 feet went in a drifting zig zag direction from w to e.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-02-25
Where
Canberra (Australia), Australia
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
-35.283, 149.128 · exact
Slug
circle-over-canberra-australia-2008-94b54a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • Canberra (Australia), Australia has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 28 reports from Australia.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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