Lake Umatilla; John Day Dam (~30 mi. E of; approximate), WA, USA
A turqoise light lit up the entire sky with no apparent point of origin.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-24
- Where
- Lake Umatilla; John Day Dam (~30 mi. E of; approximate), WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-lake-umatilla-john-day-dam-30-mi-e-of-approximate-wa-2016-61b79d
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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Lake Umatilla; John Day Dam (~30 mi. E of; approximate), WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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