UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Tacoma, WA, USA

I was sitting out side at 1:30 am smoking a cigarette, Across the sky, 3 to 5 times time bigger then a jetliner,It came towards me, I w

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-09-03
Where
Tacoma, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
47.253, -122.444 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tacoma-wa-2020-7ffbe4
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

  • Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
  • 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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