CaseCircle2020

Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD))

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-04-24
Where
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
45.411, -75.698 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ottawa-canada-on-2020-06356e
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 123 reports logged in Ottawa (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 304 Canada reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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