CaseLight2022

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
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

  • 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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