Tacoma, WA, USA
5 circular objects came up in a line from the east horizon for approx. 2 minutes the turned south and up above the clouds. There was n
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-11
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tacoma-wa-2014-6d4d38
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Tacoma, WA in April 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Tacoma, WA has 197 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 daysReport
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