CaseFlash2004
Max, ND, USA
Flashing lights moving quickly in the sky
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-14
- Where
- Max, ND, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.821, -101.299 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-max-nd-2004-333cbf
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Max, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Dakota logged 9 sightings in 2004.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.