UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

San José (Costa Rica), Costa Rica

The objet was stedy in the sky

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-19
Where
San José (Costa Rica), Costa Rica
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
9.934, -84.085 · exact
Slug
oval-over-san-jos-costa-rica-2004-2c94fc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in San José (Costa Rica), Costa Rica.
  • This case is one of 2 Costa Rica reports filed in 2004.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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