CaseFlash2021

Lakewood, WA, USA

Military veteran, lived near and currently by military base and flightline. I have seen numerous planes and aircraft that can be marked

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-25
Where
Lakewood, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
A couple minutes
Geo
47.172, -122.518 · exact
Slug
flash-over-lakewood-wa-2021-634cc3
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

  • Lakewood, WA has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 190 reports from Washington.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.1% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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