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
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
- 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 daysReport
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