CaseLight2016
Mercer Island, WA, USA
Large saucer-shaped ball of light discharging orange sparks.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-10
- Where
- Mercer Island, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 47.571, -122.222 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mercer-island-wa-2016-1ea1e0
Wave
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Mercer Island, WA.
- This case is one of 229 Washington reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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