CaseFlash2008
Falmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom
Bright flash in eastern sky
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-08
- Where
- Falmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 50.154, -5.071 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-falmouth-uk-england-2008-374b7e
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Falmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 196 sightings in 2008.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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