CaseCircle2005

Centralia, WA, USA

3 craft a faint white heading ne. makeing a full circle as they flew 4 seconds later thy were gone! i know what i saw!

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-05
Where
Centralia, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
46.716, -122.954 · exact
Slug
circle-over-centralia-wa-2005-dc9faf
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 30 reports logged in Centralia, WA.
  • This case is one of 192 Washington reports filed in 2005.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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