CaseLight2004

Renton, WA, USA

anomlous lights

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-28
Where
Renton, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 sec.
Geo
47.483, -122.217 · exact
Slug
light-over-renton-wa-2004-08f527
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

  • Renton, WA shows up 86 times across the archive.
  • 248 reports came from Washington in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

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.