CaseCircle2004

In-flight, USA

A huge flying disk was seen in the sky from an airplane.

Report quality: Low36/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-15
Where
In-flight, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Geo
Slug
circle-over-in-flight-2004-e855a1
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  • 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

  • In-flight, USA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from USA in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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