Chennai (India), India
I saw a glowing orange light moving slowly in one direction for about 1 to 1.30 mins. It was flying near to the ground, not sure about.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-08
- Where
- Chennai (India), India
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 13.088, 80.278 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chennai-india-2013-4e6a71
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
- Chennai (India), India has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 26 reports from India.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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