UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Smolensk (Russia), Russian Federation

moving light, radiant balls going up and down, flashes in the sky

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-02
Where
Smolensk (Russia), Russian Federation
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
54.778, 32.051 · exact
Slug
light-over-smolensk-russia-2020-4284c7
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

  • Smolensk (Russia), Russian Federation shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Russian Federation in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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