Everett, WA, USA
I observed an orange fireball about1/6 the size of the moon, traveling across the sky at a moderate speed twice in a 10 minute period.
Report quality: High73/100
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-02
- Where
- Everett, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 47.979, -122.202 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-everett-wa-2013-78765a
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Everett, WA reports filed in September 2013.
In context
- Everett, WA shows up 157 times across the archive.
- 321 reports came from Washington in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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