((HOAX??)), PA, Ecuador
((HOAX?? Source indicates state of PA, in Ecuador)) 2 round balls flying
Report quality: Low12/100
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
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2010-01-20
- Where
- ((HOAX??)), PA, Ecuador
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 22
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-hoax-pa-2010-c6d6bc
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 ((HOAX??)), Ecuador.
- This case is one of 1 Ecuador reports filed in 2010.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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