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
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
- 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.