CaseCircle2004
Pacific Ocean/X-43a launch, Pacific Ocean
Black circular craft seen on NASA live streaming broadcast
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-16
- Where
- Pacific Ocean/X-43a launch, Pacific Ocean
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-pacific-ocean-x-43a-launch-2004-f5f5b7
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Pacific Ocean/X-43a launch, Pacific Ocean has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 1 reports from Pacific Ocean.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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