UFOMYST
CaseFlash2009

Scottsbluff, NE, USA

Bright flash of light followed by trail.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-31
Where
Scottsbluff, NE, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.867, -103.667 · exact
Slug
flash-over-scottsbluff-ne-2009-a21668
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Scottsbluff, NE.
  • This case is one of 26 Nebraska reports filed in 2009.
  • Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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