UFOMYST
CaseChanging2009

Bainbridge Island, WA, USA

UFO with changing shape and erraticly fluid movements appears in view and leaves, shortly followed by an unmarked black helicopter.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-23
Where
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
47.626, -122.521 · exact
Slug
changing-over-bainbridge-island-wa-2009-53f70c
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

  • Bainbridge Island, WA has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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