CaseOval2005

Launceston (TAS, Australia), Australia

strange thing in australia

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-07
Where
Launceston (TAS, Australia), Australia
Shape
Oval
Duration
2min
Geo
-41.439, 147.135 · exact
Slug
oval-over-launceston-tas-australia-2005-162564
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

  • Launceston (TAS, Australia), Australia has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 60 reports from Australia.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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