Yakima (on I-82), WA, USA
Big ball of fire coming down from the sky landed on I-82 near sunnyside,wa
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-29
- Where
- Yakima (on I-82), WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-yakima-on-i-82-wa-2006-263168
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
- Yakima (on I-82), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 178 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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