Spokane, WA, USA
Silver cigar-shaped object very slowly moving over Spokane in SW direction.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-18
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-spokane-wa-2019-e00daf
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Spokane, WA reports filed in July 2019.
In context
- Spokane, WA shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 239 reports came from Washington in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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