Port Townsend, WA, USA
Large, white, cigar-shaped object. Stationary, one mile high, two miles away.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-27
- Where
- Port Townsend, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 48.117, -122.761 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-port-townsend-wa-2014-016610
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
- One of 23 documented reports from Port Townsend, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 373 sightings in 2014.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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