UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Doha (Qatar), Qatar

UFO sighting In a Gulf Desert

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-18
Where
Doha (Qatar), Qatar
Shape
Circle
Duration
10-15 sec
Geo
25.285, 51.531 · exact
Slug
circle-over-doha-qatar-1997-aa0e47
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Doha (Qatar), Qatar in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Qatar logged 1 sightings in 1997.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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