UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Okinawa (Japan), Japan

Strange light hovering above Kadena Airbase

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-17
Where
Okinawa (Japan), Japan
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
26.336, 127.801 · exact
Slug
light-over-okinawa-japan-2012-ac2090
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 4 documented reports from Okinawa (Japan), Japan in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Japan logged 4 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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