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
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
- 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.