CaseCylinder2019

Kirkland, WA, USA

Was walking out of Metropolitan Market in downtown Kirkland and noticed something metallic in the sky looking directly north. I watched

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-28
Where
Kirkland, WA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
47.681, -122.209 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-kirkland-wa-2019-b580b3
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

  • This is one of 68 reports logged in Kirkland, WA.
  • This case is one of 239 Washington reports filed in 2019.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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