UFOMYST
CaseFlash2013

Spokane, WA, USA

Two small, intense, blinking lights circled above Spokane Valley, WA. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 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
2013-10-20
Where
Spokane, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug
flash-over-spokane-wa-2013-c30f35
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Spokane, WA reports filed in October 2013.

In context

  • Spokane, WA shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 321 reports came from Washington in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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