Potchefstroom (South Africa), South Africa
Flash and huge explosion sound in night sky over Potchefstroom purple lights.
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: 990s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-23
- Where
- Potchefstroom (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-3-30min
- Geo
- -26.717, 27.100 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-potchefstroom-south-africa-2018-17cea7
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 2 reports logged in Potchefstroom (South Africa), South Africa.
- This case is one of 3 South Africa reports filed in 2018.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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