CaseFlash2013

Kingston, WA, USA

Unexplained Bright Stationary Flash of Light Kingston WA. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-10-28
Where
Kingston, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1 second
Geo
47.798, -122.498 · exact
Slug
flash-over-kingston-wa-2013-c61a71
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…

In context

  • One of 13 documented reports from Kingston, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 321 sightings in 2013.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

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