UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Kittitas, WA, USA

I was outside smoking when I noticed flashing in the distance. Grabbed my cell phone to zoom in on object. I started recording the ob

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-04-02
Where
Kittitas, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 hours
Geo
46.983, -120.417 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kittitas-wa-2018-8fd72f
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

  • Kittitas, WA has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 172 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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