UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Arlington, WA, USA

((HOAX??)) Looks like a large meteor.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-09-13
Where
Arlington, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 hour
Geo
48.199, -122.125 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-arlington-wa-2015-0e248c
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

  • Arlington, WA has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 275 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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