CaseLight2005

Baqubah (Iraq), Iraq

Looked like a set of head lights coming down a hill there is no hill reported to the SOG couldn't explain over the radio what I've see

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-01
Where
Baqubah (Iraq), Iraq
Shape
Light
Duration
Seconds
Geo
33.754, 44.605 · exact
Slug
light-over-baqubah-iraq-2005-6a875b
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 2 reports logged in Baqubah (Iraq), Iraq.
  • This case is one of 3 Iraq reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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