Istanbul (Turkey), Turkey
I am a photographer, when i ceiling of my apartment taking photographs of birds, i saw that. I take this photo Nikon D70, lens is 70-30
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-21
- Where
- Istanbul (Turkey), Turkey
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- twenty second
- Geo
- 41.014, 28.950 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-istanbul-turkey-2005-52ad0a
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
- Istanbul (Turkey), Turkey shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Turkey in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.