CaseCircle2017

Les Cayes (Haiti), Haiti

It'd a huge circle with the sun shining in the center of it. Inside was also a bunch of red images.((NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-04-18
Where
Les Cayes (Haiti), Haiti
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
18.192, -73.749 · exact
Slug
circle-over-les-cayes-haiti-2017-7429a8
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

  • Les Cayes (Haiti), Haiti has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 1 reports from Haiti.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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