CaseFlash2004

Bridgeport, OH, USA

Unknown flash of light.Lit up the sky like a fire works display in the distance. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-10-24
Where
Bridgeport, OH, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
40.070, -80.740 · exact
Slug
flash-over-bridgeport-oh-2004-3e65e8
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

  • Bridgeport, OH has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 134 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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