Ellensburg, WA, USA
I was sitting at my friends house, in my car after leaving the city pool, and I looked up. There was no noise, and the objects seemed
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-17
- Where
- Ellensburg, WA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 10-20 minutes
- Geo
- 46.997, -120.548 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-ellensburg-wa-2004-6a5cb2
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
- Ellensburg, WA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 248 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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