CaseFlash2005

Ester, AK, USA

lights in the sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-26
Where
Ester, AK, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
25 mins
Geo
64.847, -148.014 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ester-ak-2005-5cc9e5
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

  • Ester, AK shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 20 reports came from Alaska in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.