Dawson Creek (Canada), British Columbia, Canada
Looked like a UFO was falling to the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail behind a high-altitude aircraft. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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 exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2022-01-12
- Where
- Dawson Creek (Canada), British Columbia, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 55.760, -120.240 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-dawson-creek-canada-british-columbia-2022-3aee7a
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Dawson Creek (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 29 sightings in 2022.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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