Grayland, WA, USA
My wife and I spotted an orange glow in the sky over our home, moving very fast from N to S. And there were 3 more that followed.
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: 810s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-02
- Where
- Grayland, WA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 12-15 minutes
- Geo
- 46.810, -124.093 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-grayland-wa-2020-0d6b58
Part of a wave
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
- Grayland, WA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 371 reports from Washington.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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