Maple Ridge (Canada), BC, Canada
Large circular orange/red light spotted in the sky, moving south to north
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-08
- Where
- Maple Ridge (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 49.219, -122.602 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-maple-ridge-canada-bc-2012-af44fe
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 14 reports logged in Maple Ridge (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 304 Canada reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% 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.