CaseFlash2004
Babenhausen (Germany), Germany
A Flash of light that lit the ENTIRE sky. It was NOT lightning !!!
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-22
- Where
- Babenhausen (Germany), Germany
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 49.965, 8.951 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-babenhausen-germany-2004-3b8cc6
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
- Babenhausen (Germany), Germany has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 6 reports from Germany.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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