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CaseLight2018

Pacific Ocean (east of Japan), Japan

A group of extremely bright lights, red, green, yellow, over the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the night

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-21
Where
Pacific Ocean (east of Japan), Japan
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
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In context

  • Pacific Ocean (east of Japan), Japan has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 3 reports from Japan.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

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