CaseChanging2018

Warden, WA, USA

We saw a light that resembled a star over the horizon that shot straight up not like any aircraft we've ever seen. We continue to watch

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-23
Where
Warden, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
46.968, -119.040 · exact
Slug
changing-over-warden-wa-2018-5e250f
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

  • Warden, WA has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 172 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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