CaseDisk2005
Melbourne (Australia), AL, Australia
12/30/05 silver object hovering for 15 mins
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-30
- Where
- Melbourne (Australia), AL, Australia
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-melbourne-australia-al-2005-e3fdf8
Wave
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 35 reports logged in Melbourne (Australia), Australia.
- This case is one of 60 Australia reports filed in 2005.
- 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.