UFOMYST
CaseFlash2018

Fairbanks, AK, USA

There were several bright green flashes (not Northern Lights), bright and short. Right above our cabin.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-16
Where
Fairbanks, AK, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
64.838, -147.716 · exact
Slug
flash-over-fairbanks-ak-2018-78188f
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Fairbanks, AK logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2018.

In context

  • One of 79 documented reports from Fairbanks, AK in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alaska logged 25 sightings in 2018.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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