CaseCircle2008

Kathmandu (Nepal), Nepal

Low flying huge circular light seen silently heading towards the North

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-18
Where
Kathmandu (Nepal), Nepal
Shape
Circle
Duration
around 1 minute
Geo
27.702, 85.321 · exact
Slug
circle-over-kathmandu-nepal-2008-77bc97
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

  • Kathmandu (Nepal), Nepal has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 3 reports from Nepal.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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