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
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.