UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Orafino, ID, USA

Saw flashes of light, like strobes, at high altitude but not in a straight line and only every ten seconds or so

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-09
Where
Orafino, ID, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
40.497, -100.229 · fallback
Slug
flash-over-orafino-id-2008-855dc6
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Orafino, ID shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 26 reports came from Idaho in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Report

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