CaseCircle2014

Kirkland, WA, USA

Circular, glowing orange/reddish orange, no sound, speed was slow and consistent, heading north, the background....night time, clear sk

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-14
Where
Kirkland, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
47.681, -122.209 · exact
Slug
circle-over-kirkland-wa-2014-4b5183
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

  • Kirkland, WA has 68 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 373 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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