UFOMYST
CaseFlash2016

Ormond Beach, FL, USA

Flashing Multicolor Object - Distance Local ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star, probably Sirius. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-04-23
Where
Ormond Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 hours
Geo
29.286, -81.056 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ormond-beach-fl-2016-9a2f87
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

  • One of 29 documented reports from Ormond Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 365 sightings in 2016.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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