Trout Lake, WA, USA
triangle pattern of stars moving from South to North
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-06
- Where
- Trout Lake, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 45.997, -121.528 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-trout-lake-wa-2006-59ae01
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
August 2006 was a busy month for Trout Lake, WA: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Trout Lake, WA.
- This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.