CaseCircle2004

Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland

The object was bobbing around in mid-air that morning, enough to catch my attention....

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-08
Where
Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
52.258, -7.112 · exact
Slug
circle-over-waterford-republic-of-ireland-2004-098349
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 5 reports logged in Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland.
  • This case is one of 10 Ireland reports filed in 2004.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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