CaseCone2022

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Very low, very fast and a bright blue then white light from the back

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-04-11
Where
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Shape
Cone
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
-37.814, 144.963 · exact
Slug
cone-over-melbourne-victoria-2022-5a4754
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 3 reports logged in Melbourne, Australia.
  • This case is one of 13 Australia reports filed in 2022.
  • Cone craft made up 0.2% of 2020s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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