UFOMYST
CaseOther2008

Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada

bright object about 10 times larger then a star suddenly appeared just to the right of the north start, for 30 seconds and vanished

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-19
Where
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
45.411, -75.698 · exact
Slug
other-over-ottawa-canada-on-2008-05ae50
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • Ottawa (Canada), Canada shows up 123 times across the archive.
  • 153 reports came from Canada in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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