Newmarket (Canada), ON, Canada
It appeared as a quickly pulsating, oscillation with long, oval arch to each side, moving at the speed of a meteorite, but wasn't.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-28
- Where
- Newmarket (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 44.050, -79.466 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-newmarket-canada-on-2016-c83794
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Newmarket (Canada), 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
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.