Spokane Valley, WA, USA
V-shaped formation of lights over Spokane, WA
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-28
- Where
- Spokane Valley, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.673, -117.239 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-spokane-valley-wa-2009-00189e
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
3 reports came out of Spokane Valley, WA in August 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Spokane Valley, WA has 44 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.