UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Essex Junction, VT, USA

BRIGHT BLUE FLASH IN THE SKY. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (29 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
2012-02-28
Where
Essex Junction, VT, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
<1 second
Geo
44.491, -73.111 · exact
Slug
flash-over-essex-junction-vt-2012-2c90ba
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…

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In context

  • Essex Junction, VT shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 57 reports came from Vermont in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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