CaseFlash2016
Hamden, CT, USA
((HOAX??)) Blue-Green flash in the night sky.
Report quality: Low14/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-03-28
- Where
- Hamden, CT, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.396, -72.897 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-hamden-ct-2016-d8dbf4
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
- This is one of 20 reports logged in Hamden, CT.
- This case is one of 75 Connecticut reports filed in 2016.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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