CaseFlash2016

Federal Way, WA, USA

Addendum to original report.

Report quality: Moderate62/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-02-16
Where
Federal Way, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
47.322, -122.313 · exact
Slug
flash-over-federal-way-wa-2016-4ec743
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Federal Way, WA logged 3 reports in the single month of February 2016.

In context

  • One of 59 documented reports from Federal Way, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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