CaseLight2008

Byron Center, WA, USA

Strange lights that were hovering over the woods and moved very fast.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-20
Where
Byron Center, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10mins
Geo
42.812, -85.723 · fallback
Slug
light-over-byron-center-wa-2008-8e6278
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…

In context

  • Byron Center, WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 200 reports came from Washington in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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