UFOMYST
CaseFlash2020

San Bernardino, CA, USA

Strange flash of light in the sky and trails of objects falling out of the sky toward the mountains 01/30/20. 01/31/20 1 witness of 6 s

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: 43200s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-30
Where
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
All day
Geo
34.108, -117.290 · exact
Slug
flash-over-san-bernardino-ca-2020-50fdd3
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 73 documented reports from San Bernardino, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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