Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A light flying above which I thought was satellite until it stopped and changed direction. I can rule out plane, helicopter, satellit
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-15
- Where
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- -33.868, 151.207 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sydney-new-south-wales-2022-58b3e5
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
- Sydney, Australia shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from Australia in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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