UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Newcastle, WA, USA

As we speak this is happening. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising banner, being pulled by a tow plane. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-10-25
Where
Newcastle, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1.5 hour
Geo
47.539, -122.156 · exact
Slug
disk-over-newcastle-wa-2016-e60728
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Newcastle, WA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 229 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.