UFOMYST
CaseFormation2009

Burien, WA, USA

Observed 1 unknown black object for about 20 seconds then transformed to 2 seperate objects. then to form one craft and fly out of view

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-27
Where
Burien, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 minute
Geo
47.470, -122.347 · exact
Slug
formation-over-burien-wa-2009-9db773
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 →

In context

  • This is one of 23 reports logged in Burien, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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