UFOMYST
CaseFormation2015

Bellingham, WA, USA

At about 8:30-8:45pm on Christmas Night, I stepped out into my back yard and looked at the western sky. Through the tall trees.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2015-12-25
Where
Bellingham, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 hours+
Geo
48.760, -122.488 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bellingham-wa-2015-68d887
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Bellingham, WA reports filed in December 2015.

In context

  • Bellingham, WA shows up 136 times across the archive.
  • 275 reports came from Washington in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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