Yalikavak/Bodrum/Mugla/Turkey, Turkey
At the that time I was taking the pictures of the sun behind the clouds. ((NUFORC Note: Camera lens flares. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-09-20
- Where
- Yalikavak/Bodrum/Mugla/Turkey, Turkey
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.105, 27.297 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-yalikavak-bodrum-mugla-turkey-2017-b0ec7b
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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 1 reports logged in Yalikavak/Bodrum/Mugla/Turkey, Turkey.
- This case is one of 2 Turkey reports filed in 2017.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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