UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Rosetta (South Africa), South Africa

Orb-like objects travelling across the sky followed by flashes of light.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-13
Where
Rosetta (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
31.400, 30.417 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-rosetta-south-africa-2012-7935e1
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

  • Rosetta (South Africa), South Africa has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 26 reports from South Africa.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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