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2006: Karwar, Karnataka UFO Sighting | Three Lights Case Archive

On the evening of April 7, 2006, a regular sky-watcher on a friend’s terrace in Karwar, a coastal district at Karnataka’s western tip near the Goa border, logged three separate lights inside of forty-five minutes: a small yellow, inverted-square shape at 7:40 PM; a slower, golden, oval “shooting star” trailing light at 7:50; and, at 8:25, something that stopped the witness cold — a bright golden light three-quarters the size of the moon, hanging perfectly still for at least fifteen seconds before dropping straight down for another five and vanishing. Screaming for anyone nearby to come look, the witness watched alone. No one arrived in time.

What makes this report unusual isn’t just that night, though — it’s the frame the witness puts around it. This was, by their own account, one entry in years of near-nightly sky-watching, records kept since mid-2003 and, through a friend the witness calls “Dr. M,” since 1997. The recurring lights have their own nickname: “stars,” visited so often the witness describes feeling “a bond with them.” This entry treats that larger, undocumented pattern as important context, not confirmation.

Date: April 7, 2006

Sighting Time: 7:40 PM to 8:30 PM (three separate sightings within this window)

Day/Night: Night

Location: Karwar, Karnataka, India (a coastal district at the western tip of Karnataka, bordering Goa), observed from a friend’s terrace

Urban or Rural: Urban

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) — point or extended luminous sources observed at night, appropriately applied to all three objects

Duration: Object 1: 8 seconds | Object 2: 5 seconds | Object 3: approximately 20 seconds total (15 seconds stationary + 5 seconds vertical descent) — corrected from “15 seconds”; see Researcher’s Notes

No. of Object(s): 3 (three separate objects observed in sequence during one evening’s session)

Description of the Object(s): Object 1 (7:40 PM): a small, yellow, inverted-square-shaped light traveling westerly then north, visible 8 seconds. Object 2 (7:50 PM): a slower, golden, oval-shaped light resembling a large shooting star, leaving a golden trail, traveling east to west, visible 5 seconds. Object 3 (8:25 PM): a bright golden light about three-quarters the apparent size of the moon, motionless for at least 15 seconds, then descending vertically for about 5 seconds before disappearing.

Shape of Object(s): Object 1: inverted square. Object 2: oval. Object 3: no specific shape given by the witness beyond “a bright golden light”; the original field’s third descriptor (“circular with pointed edges”) is not supported by the account as given. See Researcher’s Notes.

Size of Object(s): Object 1: approximately 2 inches (apparent size). Object 2: approximately 2 inches (apparent size at disappearance). Object 3: approximately three-quarters the apparent size of the moon.

Color of Object(s): Object 1: yellow. Object 2: golden. Object 3: bright golden. Completed from the original incomplete field (“yellow |”); see Researcher’s Notes.

Distance to Object(s): Undocumented for all three objects

Height & Speed: Undocumented; Object 3 was explicitly stationary before its vertical descent

Number of Witnesses: 1 for this specific session — the witness was alone during this evening’s observations, despite describing a broader, ongoing pattern of group sky-watching with a friend (“Dr. M”) and others on other, unspecified occasions. See Researcher’s Notes.

Special Features/Characteristics: Witness was engaged in a regular, personal sky-watching practice from a friend’s terrace; three distinct objects were observed within about 45 minutes; the witness attempted to call others to see the third and most striking object, but no one arrived in time; witness describes maintaining personal sighting records dating back to mid-2003, and references a friend, “Dr. M,” whose own records of similar sightings reportedly date back to 1997; recurring lights of this kind are described affectionately by the witness as “stars,” said to recur “sometimes on a daily basis for a whole week together”

Case Status: Insufficient Data — see Researcher’s Notes for rationale

Source: Undocumented — appears to be a directly submitted first-person account; original submission venue not specified

Summary/Description: Between 7:40 and 8:30 PM on April 7, 2006, a witness sky-watching from a friend’s terrace in Karwar, Karnataka, observed three separate lights: a small yellow, inverted-square-shaped object; a golden, oval, shooting-star-like object; and, most notably, a bright golden light nearly the size of the moon that hovered motionless for 15 seconds before descending vertically and vanishing. The witness situates this sighting within a much longer, informal personal and shared practice of sky-watching dating back to 2003 (and, via a friend, to 1997), describing similar recurring lights as near-nightly visitors.

Related Cases: The witness references a broader, undocumented pattern of recurring sightings shared with a friend (“Dr. M,” recording similar sightings since 1997) and other unnamed individuals. None of these are separately indexed in this archive.

Detailed Report

The witness describes April 7, 2006, as an ordinary night of a well-established habit: sky-watching from a friend’s terrace in Karwar, a coastal district at Karnataka’s western edge bordering Goa. At 7:40 PM, facing west, the witness noticed a small, yellow light shaped like an inverted square, traveling in a northerly direction. It floated across the sky for about 8 seconds before disappearing abruptly.

Ten minutes later, at 7:50 PM, a second light appeared — larger and slower than a typical shooting star, trailing a golden glow behind it as it crossed the horizon from east to west. At the moment it vanished, the witness judged it to be about 2 inches in apparent size and oval in shape. This second sighting lasted about 5 seconds.

The most striking moment came later, at 8:25 PM, just as the witness was preparing to end the evening’s watch. Facing north, the witness spotted a bright golden light, roughly three-quarters the apparent size of the moon, that simply stopped and held its position — motionless for at least 15 seconds. The witness began calling out for anyone nearby to come see it, but no one arrived in time. The light then began descending straight down, continuing for about 5 more seconds before disappearing entirely.

The witness frames this specific evening as one data point within a much larger, ongoing personal practice: sighting records reportedly kept since the middle of 2003, and, through a friend referred to only as “Dr. M,” a parallel record reportedly extending back to 1997. Describing a wider circle of people who have witnessed some of these recurring lights either together or independently, the witness refers to them with evident familiarity as “stars,” noting that they’ve appeared with some regularity — occasionally, by the witness’s account, on a nightly basis for a full week at a stretch.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Three Lights Over Karwar — India 2006 and a Decade of Uncounted “Stars”

Duration Correction: The original field lists the third object’s duration as “15 seconds,” but the witness’s own account describes two distinct phases — the object stood motionless for at least 15 seconds, then descended vertically for an additional 5 seconds before disappearing. This entry presents the third object’s total observed duration as approximately 20 seconds, not 15.
Color Field Completion: The original field was left incomplete (“yellow |”), missing the colors of the second and third objects, both of which the witness describes clearly (golden, and bright golden, respectively). This entry fills in all three.
Shape Discrepancy: The original field lists a third shape descriptor, “circular with pointed edges,” alongside “square” and “oval.” The witness’s own account, however, describes the third object only as “a bright golden light” without specifying a shape. This entry does not assign an unsupported shape to the third object.
A Much Larger, Undocumented Practice: This report describes a single evening drawn from what the witness frames as a long-running, informal sky-watching practice — the witness’s own records reportedly dating back to mid-2003, and a friend’s (“Dr. M”) records reportedly dating to 1997, with similar lights recurring “sometimes on a daily basis for a whole week together.” None of this broader pattern is independently documented, investigated, or corroborated beyond the witness’s own account, and it should be read as important context for, rather than confirmation of, the specific April 7, 2006 sightings described here.
Frequency as a Consideration: A pattern of near-nightly recurring lights observed over years by a small, informal, non-institutional group of dedicated sky-watchers is also consistent with repeated misidentification of conventional phenomena (satellites, aircraft, meteors, or planets) during prolonged, dedicated observation sessions — a fair analytical consideration raised here, without asserting it as the explanation for any specific sighting described in this entry.
Single-Witness for This Session: Despite referencing broader group sky-watching activity on other occasions, the witness was alone during the specific evening described in this report, and attempted unsuccessfully to summon others to see the third object.

Read on its own, April 7, 2006, is a detailed, internally consistent night of sky-watching: three lights, three shapes, three durations, carefully timed. Read as the witness intends it — one night among many, inside a personal tradition of naming and returning to the same recurring lights for years — it becomes something harder to evaluate, resting on a scale of repetition this archive has no way to independently check. It is filed as Insufficient Data for that reason, not for any flaw in this specific night’s account.