Port Elizabeth (South Africa), South Africa
blue light swiched on under water and a blue sphere rised up hang above the water level 2 or 3 feet above the surfice then slowly moved
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: 780s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-09
- Where
- Port Elizabeth (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- +- 13 MIN
- Geo
- -33.961, 25.615 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-port-elizabeth-south-africa-2005-1a0baa
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
- Port Elizabeth (South Africa), South Africa shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from South Africa in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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