Yellowknife (Canada), NT, Canada
Twilight sighting of bright, glowing, red, oval and moving object in northern Canada.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-12-09
- Where
- Yellowknife (Canada), NT, Canada
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 62.454, -114.372 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-yellowknife-canada-nt-2004-f49a8a
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
- Yellowknife (Canada), Canada shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 362 reports came from Canada in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.