UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

I-5 North in Federal Way, WA, USA

orange fiery ball surrounded by a bright blue aura

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-05
Where
I-5 North in Federal Way, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-i-5-north-in-federal-way-wa-2004-9491fb
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

  • I-5 North in Federal Way, WA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 248 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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