CaseCircle2009
Dover, DE, USA
NOISELESS HOVERING THEN FLYING CIRCLE OF WHITE LIGHTS
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-11
- Where
- Dover, DE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- HALF HOUR
- Geo
- 39.158, -75.524 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dover-de-2009-54cebd
Wave
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
- Dover, DE shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Delaware in 2009.
- 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.