Kettle Falls, WA, USA
On 2/22/05 my brother witnessed two objects in the NW sky, with meteor characteristics but unusually large.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-02-22
- Where
- Kettle Falls, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 48.611, -118.056 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kettle-falls-wa-2005-dfb400
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
- Kettle Falls, WA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 192 reports came from Washington in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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