Spokane Valley, WA, USA
At approximately 4:15 I was driving north in Spokane Valley. I was at a stop light getting ready to enter I-90 heading west. I saw tw
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-05
- Where
- Spokane Valley, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 47.673, -117.239 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-spokane-valley-wa-2018-097746
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
- Spokane Valley, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 172 reports came from Washington in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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