CaseCigar2014

Kent, WA, USA

It was 1:28 am on 8/25/14. I walked outside through the sliding glass door into my backyard. I looked up into the sky and I saw an or

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-08-25
Where
Kent, WA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
47.381, -122.235 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-kent-wa-2014-f9983d
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

  • This is one of 74 reports logged in Kent, WA.
  • This case is one of 373 Washington reports filed in 2014.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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