Marlborough, CT, USA
Dark night with the only light coming from the moon. At midnight all of a sudden a huge flash that lit up everything as of it was day t
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-09
- Where
- Marlborough, CT, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- <1 second
- Geo
- 41.631, -72.460 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-marlborough-ct-2017-243de7
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 4 documented reports from Marlborough, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 84 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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