Vancouver, WA, USA
Saw 'white orb swarm' of 10-20 during the day, near Columbia River in Vancouver, WA on 4/30/20.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-30
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-vancouver-wa-2020-dad1cb
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
5 reports came out of Vancouver, WA in April 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Vancouver, WA has 223 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 371 reports from Washington.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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