Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
group of red and white flashing lights moving slowly through the sky for a period of at least 5 minutes.
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 (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-05
- Where
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- -22.906, -43.182 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-2006-5e1eb5
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
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 5 reports from Brazil.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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