Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana
Triangular object over Botswana - Gaberone ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a twinkling star? PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-07-07
- Where
- Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-gaberone-botswama-2008-39dd0b
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
- Gaberone (Botswama), Botswana has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 2 reports from Botswana.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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