CaseChanging2004

Granite Falls, WA, USA

A bright object with flashing colored lights and consistent back and forth movement appeared in the Northwest Sky at about 10PM.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-08-16
Where
Granite Falls, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
6 HOURS
Geo
48.084, -121.969 · exact
Slug
changing-over-granite-falls-wa-2004-53ad03
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

  • Granite Falls, WA shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 248 reports came from Washington in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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