Gold Bar, WA, USA
One black floating cylinder shaped object moved in air floating ...turned like it was being driven from horizontal to vertical.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-06
- Where
- Gold Bar, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes+
- Geo
- 47.857, -121.697 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gold-bar-wa-2016-70e889
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Gold Bar, WA.
- This case is one of 229 Washington reports filed in 2016.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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