UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2006

Gold Coast (Australia), Australia

UFO sighting while surfing. ((NUFORC Note: Report from student. PD))

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: 36s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-04-30
Where
Gold Coast (Australia), Australia
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
36 Seconds
Geo
-28.000, 153.431 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-gold-coast-australia-2006-7b5c11
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

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In context

  • Gold Coast (Australia), Australia has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 50 reports from Australia.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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