UFOMYST
CaseFlash2011

Partlow, VA, USA

Went out to have a smoke ....looking up to see if mars was out and and noticed a bright star in the north east .... Then what I thought

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-17
Where
Partlow, VA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
About a min
Geo
38.039, -77.639 · exact
Slug
flash-over-partlow-va-2011-16c9ac
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 3 documented reports from Partlow, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2011.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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