Capetown (CPT) (South Africa), South Africa
flying disc streaking across the sky (in outerspace) in South Africa at almost the speed of light.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-28
- Where
- Capetown (CPT) (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- -33.926, 18.423 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-capetown-cpt-south-africa-2004-8704b5
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 1 reports logged in Capetown (CPT) (South Africa), South Africa.
- This case is one of 10 South Africa reports filed in 2004.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% 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.