Olympia, WA, USA
Single flashing bright white lingers in sky as it bounces around and changes direction for 6 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-06-12
- Where
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-olympia-wa-2018-dfaca7
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
- One of 112 documented reports from Olympia, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 172 sightings in 2018.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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