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CaseFireball2005

Lopez Island, WA, USA

We live on the water on Lopez Island (Davis Bay). Four of us were playing cards in front of the window when my brother-in-law said "Lo

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-12
Where
Lopez Island, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
seconds
Geo
48.524, -122.915 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lopez-island-wa-2005-183d91
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…

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In context

  • Lopez Island, WA shows up 6 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%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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