CaseUnknown2006

Port Shepstine (South Africa), South Africa

Splash in ocean, UFO hovers, smoke clouds...

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-05-22
Where
Port Shepstine (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Unknown
Duration
about 20-30 seconds
Geo
Slug
unknown-over-port-shepstine-south-africa-2006-76aab2
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

    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 Port Shepstine (South Africa), South Africa.
  • This case is one of 5 South Africa reports filed in 2006.

Report

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