Port Orchard, WA, USA
They made no noise they hovered stationary two hours and did nothing while there were other planes in the air but they never moved.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-11
- Where
- Port Orchard, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 47.540, -122.636 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-port-orchard-wa-2017-2627c5
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…
Local cluster
Port Orchard, WA logged 4 reports in the single month of February 2017.
In context
- One of 43 documented reports from Port Orchard, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 205 sightings in 2017.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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