CaseLight2006

Atlantic Ocean (in flight), Atlantic Ocean

Bright light, changing colors, sitting still in the sky for 3-4 minutes and then moving slowly and disapperaing in front of our plane.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-08-26
Where
Atlantic Ocean (in flight), Atlantic Ocean
Shape
Light
Duration
5 min.
Geo
Slug
light-over-atlantic-ocean-in-flight-2006-3d9ec6
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Atlantic Ocean (in flight), Atlantic Ocean in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Atlantic Ocean logged 2 sightings in 2006.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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