CaseOval2016

Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada

Big bright white light with pulsating red-circle light in center crosses horizon going from West to East.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-11
Where
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
45.411, -75.698 · exact
Slug
oval-over-ottawa-canada-on-2016-340951
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

  • Ottawa (Canada), Canada has 123 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 179 reports from Canada.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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