Centralia, WA, USA
Saw object over trees. Thought it was fireworks because of the holiday, but it headed south in a straight line, then made a V-pattern
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-01
- Where
- Centralia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 46.716, -122.954 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-centralia-wa-2018-5fd14a
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
- Centralia, WA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 172 reports came from Washington in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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