Puyallup, WA, USA
The three objects appeared 'moving from north to south at ahigh rate of speed and disappeared six seconds later.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-27
- Where
- Puyallup, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 47.185, -122.293 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-puyallup-wa-2005-3c7fb3
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
- Puyallup, WA shows up 85 times across the archive.
- 192 reports came from Washington in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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