UFOMYST
CaseChevron2012

Yakima, WA, USA

Bright crescent shaped craft quickly flying across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-04
Where
Yakima, WA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
46.602, -120.506 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-yakima-wa-2012-27f0dc
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…

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In context

  • One of 113 documented reports from Yakima, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 427 sightings in 2012.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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