CaseFlash2009
Niagara Falls (Canada), ON, Canada
flash in sky over Niagara
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (25 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-31
- Where
- Niagara Falls (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 43.100, -79.066 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-niagara-falls-canada-on-2009-0dc3f6
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 28 documented reports from Niagara Falls (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 175 sightings in 2009.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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