CaseFlash2004

Manchester, NH, USA

At approximately 20:35hrs greater than what conventional aircraft (40+ thousand feet) a brightness of two very strong white lights appe

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-19
Where
Manchester, NH, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
42.996, -71.455 · exact
Slug
flash-over-manchester-nh-2004-f6ff41
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

  • Manchester, NH shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 19 reports came from New Hampshire in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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