South Africa, South Africa
On the early hours of the morning I was sitting outside on the stoep. I was looking towards a nearby river when I saw a bright light at
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.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-20
- Where
- South Africa, South Africa
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-south-africa-2009-57c09f
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
- One of 3 documented reports from South Africa, South Africa in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Africa logged 11 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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