CaseCircle2021

Manila (Philippines), Metro Manila, Philippines

Bright object moving unusually over Manila

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-30
Where
Manila (Philippines), Metro Manila, Philippines
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
14.604, 120.982 · exact
Slug
circle-over-manila-philippines-metro-manila-2021-f042f5
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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Manila (Philippines), Philippines.
  • This case is one of 1 Philippines reports filed in 2021.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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