UFOMYST
CaseFlash2016

Port Townsend, WA, USA

I saw flashes of light above me that would appear for any tiny fraction of a second, then be gone, only to reappear again either in

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-24
Where
Port Townsend, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 second flashes
Geo
48.117, -122.761 · exact
Slug
flash-over-port-townsend-wa-2016-3818fe
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…

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In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Port Townsend, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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