CaseCircle2010
Lake Tapps, WA, USA
White glowing object appears, moves very fast, and then dissappeared.
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-23
- Where
- Lake Tapps, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-lake-tapps-wa-2010-0e7452
Wave
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 3 reports logged in Lake Tapps, WA.
- This case is one of 275 Washington reports filed in 2010.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.