CaseTeardrop2006
Bursa (Turkey), Turkey
Bright green object in the sky
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Bursa (Turkey), Turkey
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 40.196, 29.060 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-bursa-turkey-2006-354ee5
Wave
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
- Bursa (Turkey), Turkey shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Turkey in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
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.