CaseCircle2011

Sultan, WA, USA

with regular 7x35mm binoculars and spotted it directly above us, way up in the sky traveling from West to East white ball type circle

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-28
Where
Sultan, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
47.863, -121.817 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sultan-wa-2011-ec1332
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

  • Sultan, WA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 304 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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