CaseCircle2010

Ft. Buchanan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico

Black object at least 20,000 ft. up, over a highly restricted air zone in a military base, most likely undetected by radar.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-14
Where
Ft. Buchanan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
Slug
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Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Ft. Buchanan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 5 reports from Puerto Rico.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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