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2008: NDA Hill, India UFO Sighting | Rotating Disk Case Archive

Around 11:15 on the night of January 22, 2008, a man covering his car in a parking area near NDA Hill, close to India’s National Defence Academy outside Pune, looked up and spotted something strange enough to phone his wife on the spot. She could see it too — a classic disk shape, ringed with steady lights around its circumference, slowly rotating on its own axis, hanging motionless in the sky. She grabbed her binoculars for a closer look. For about 30 seconds it simply held its position before drifting gently downward toward the south and slipping out of sight behind the hill.

Date: January 22, 2008

Sighting Time: 11:15 to 11:20 PM

Day/Night: Night

Location: NDA Hill area, near India’s National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Urban or Rural: Undocumented precisely; the account describes a residential parking area, suggesting a suburban/residential setting near the academy

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) — retained, though the described structure is more detailed than a typical undifferentiated nocturnal light; see Researcher’s Notes

Duration: Approximately 30 seconds stationary before it began drifting away

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A disk-shaped object with stable lights arranged around its circumference, rotating about its own axis; remained motionless in place for about 30 seconds before drifting downward toward the south and disappearing behind a hill

Shape of Object(s): Disk-like

Size of Object(s): Undocumented

Color of Object(s): Undocumented — corrected. The original field described the object’s structure and rotation, not a color; no specific light color is given anywhere in the source. See Researcher’s Notes.

Distance to Object(s): Undocumented

Height & Speed: Up to approximately 2 km altitude, per the witness’s own upper-bound estimate (“should not be more than 2 Kms above the ground”); no numeric speed given — object was stable/motionless initially, then drifted gently downward at the end

Number of Witnesses: 2 — both confirmed observers. The husband first noticed the object and called his wife, who also directly observed it, including a closer look through binoculars.

Special Features/Characteristics: Husband first noticed the object while covering his car in a parking area and called his wife by phone; wife also observed it directly and used binoculars for a closer look; object was described as “a typical UFO disk structure”

Case Status: Unexplained

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

Summary/Description: Around 11:15 PM on January 22, 2008, near NDA Hill by India’s National Defence Academy outside Pune, a man covering his car noticed a disk-shaped object with stable lights around its circumference, rotating on its own axis, and called his wife, who confirmed the sighting and used binoculars for a closer look. The object held its position for about 30 seconds before drifting south and disappearing behind a hill.

Related Cases: Undocumented — source does not reference other cases

Detailed Report

The witness’s husband was the first to notice anything unusual, out in a parking area near NDA Hill, close to India’s National Defence Academy outside Pune, putting a cover over his car sometime around 11:15 PM on January 22, 2008. Whatever he saw was enough to prompt an immediate phone call to his wife, who came out and was able to see it too.

She described it as a classic disk-shaped object, with stable lights arranged around its circumference, visibly rotating about its own axis. Wanting a better look, she went for her binoculars, and through them confirmed the same structure in more detail. The object stayed perfectly still, holding its position in the sky, for roughly 30 seconds. Then it began to drift, gently, downward and toward the south, before disappearing from view behind a nearby hill. By the witness’s own estimate, it had never been higher than about 2 kilometers above the ground.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The NDA Hill Disk — India 2008 and a Genuine Second Witness

Field Correction — Color/Shape Content Merged: The original “Color of Object(s)” field actually described the object’s structure and rotation (“stable lights on its circumference… disk rotating about its axis”), not a color. No specific light color is given anywhere in the source. This entry moves that structural detail to the object’s description and marks Color as Undocumented.
Genuine Two-Witness Corroboration: Unlike several cases in this archive where a second person was summoned but missed the sighting, here both witnesses directly observed the object — the husband first, by phone call to his wife, who also watched it and used binoculars for a closer look.
Classification Notes: NL is retained, though the described structure — a disk shape with stable circumferential lights, observed clearly enough with binoculars to discern rotation — is more detailed than a typical undifferentiated nocturnal light. No horizontal distance is given in the source, only an estimated maximum altitude, so a close-encounter reclassification is not clearly supported either.
Location Note: “NDA Hill” most likely refers to the area around India’s National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, near Pune, Maharashtra — a hilly, partly residential area near the academy’s campus. This entry adopts that general identification without asserting a more precise location than the source supports.
Height & Speed, Clarified: The original field lists only “2 Kms,” which the source presents as the witness’s own upper-bound estimate for the object’s altitude, not a confirmed figure. No numeric speed is given; the object’s motion is described only as stable/motionless initially, then a gentle downward drift at the end.

A phone call across a parking lot, a pair of binoculars, and thirty quiet seconds of a disk holding perfectly still in the sky — the NDA Hill sighting is unremarkable in its telling and, for that reason, easy to credit. Both witnesses saw the same thing, independently confirmed within minutes of each other. It remains filed as Unexplained on that modest, corroborated basis.