CaseCircle2013
Qutong Gorge (Yangtze River) (China), China
China, Circular. 10-20 seconds Along Yangtze River at Qutong Gorge
Report quality: Low39/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-01
- Where
- Qutong Gorge (Yangtze River) (China), China
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-qutong-gorge-yangtze-river-china-2013-5fff87
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
- Qutong Gorge (Yangtze River) (China), China shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from China in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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