UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Nelson, New Zealand

military craft morphs into circle craft

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-16
Where
Nelson, New Zealand
Shape
Circle
Duration
a few seconds
Geo
-41.271, 173.284 · exact
Slug
circle-over-nelson-2009-8e4bbd
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Nelson, New Zealand.
  • This case is one of 8 New Zealand reports filed in 2009.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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