UFOMYST
CaseFlash2016

Federal Way, WA, USA

((HOAX??)) As we were inside, the town goes completely black as we walk outside multiple green flashes were seen in the E sky.

Report quality: Low33/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-02-16
Where
Federal Way, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Pacific Hwy
Geo
47.322, -122.313 · exact
Slug
flash-over-federal-way-wa-2016-c08cfb
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Federal Way, WA in February 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Federal Way, WA has 59 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 229 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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