Cebu (Philippines), yes
Orange ball no trailer/ exhaust cleard horizen east to west in 22 minutes , Cebu Philippines.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1320s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-15
- Where
- Cebu (Philippines), yes
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 22 minutes
- Geo
- 10.317, 123.891 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-cebu-philippines-2017-cb0c51
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 1 reports logged in Cebu (Philippines), yes.
- This case is one of 1 yes reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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