CaseFlash2018

San Antonio, TX, USA

Was driving home heading south on Commercial avenue on the south side of San Antonio. We noticed a large flash of light in the south ea

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-11
Where
San Antonio, TX, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3-8 minutes
Geo
29.424, -98.494 · exact
Slug
flash-over-san-antonio-tx-2018-94d13e
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…

In context

  • San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Texas in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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