CaseDisk2004
Surat (India), India
A bright show of A UFO>
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: 48s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-06
- Where
- Surat (India), India
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 45-50 Seconds
- Geo
- 21.196, 72.830 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-surat-india-2004-bc3f35
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
- Surat (India), India shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from India in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.