Kent, WA, USA
At approximately 12:20pm 4/02/12 I was driving north up the wa-167 from auburn,wa into Renton,wa and saw 2 cigar/rod shaped objects fly
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-02
- Where
- Kent, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- 47.381, -122.235 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-kent-wa-2012-d6d292
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
- Kent, WA shows up 74 times across the archive.
- 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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