Cheney, WA, USA
I was driving West along Spokane-Cheney road and saw some sort of craft approaching in the sky. At first I thought it was an airplane.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-18
- Where
- Cheney, WA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.487, -117.576 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-cheney-wa-2018-6f462c
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
- Cheney, WA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 172 reports came from Washington in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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