CaseFlash2017

San Juan, Puerto Rico Commonwealth

Strong white glow in object. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of an Iridium satellite?? 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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 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
2017-09-01
Where
San Juan, Puerto Rico Commonwealth
Shape
Flash
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
18.466, -66.106 · exact
Slug
flash-over-san-juan-2017-b3cd06
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 Juan, Puerto Rico Commonwealth has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 1 reports from Puerto Rico Commonwealth.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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