UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Ribeirao Preto (Brazil), Brazil

extremely strong and intense blue light.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-08
Where
Ribeirao Preto (Brazil), Brazil
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
-21.177, -47.810 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ribeirao-preto-brazil-2008-05cc3f
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

  • Ribeirao Preto (Brazil), Brazil shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Brazil in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.