CaseFlash2009
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
Flash of light followed by change in broadcast signals, and then unmarked black helicopter with searchlight.
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-02
- Where
- Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 47.626, -122.521 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-bainbridge-island-wa-2009-bd6544
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In context
- Bainbridge Island, WA has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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