CaseOval2016

Canada (west coast; Alaskan cruise), BC, Canada

Yellow orbs seen while on an Alaskan cruise.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-24
Where
Canada (west coast; Alaskan cruise), BC, Canada
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
20.606, -100.331 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-canada-west-coast-alaskan-cruise-bc-2016-fe23fd
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Canada (west coast; Alaskan cruise), Canada.
  • This case is one of 179 Canada reports filed in 2016.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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