CaseFlash2008
Riverside, CA, USA
Large flash, bright streak in the sky
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-02
- Where
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 33.953, -117.396 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-riverside-ca-2008-c8e91d
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
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Riverside, CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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