UFOMYST
CaseFlash2021

Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada

Object seemingly moves in two directions at once while brightening and dimming.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-17
Where
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Flash
Duration
~30 seconds
Geo
45.411, -75.698 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ottawa-canada-on-2021-c9833f
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

  • One of 123 documented reports from Ottawa (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 78 sightings in 2021.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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