CaseFlash2016

North Bend, WA, USA

I was traveling home, east bound i90 to north bend, WA. I began to see extremely bright flashes lighting up the sky every 3-5 minutes o

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-21
Where
North Bend, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Intermittent
Geo
47.496, -121.787 · exact
Slug
flash-over-north-bend-wa-2016-6ec90a
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

  • North Bend, WA has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 229 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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