UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Renton, WA, USA

bright star burst in norther sky at 60 degrees above horizon at around 5:35am on 2-17-04

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-17
Where
Renton, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1.5 to 2 seconds
Geo
47.483, -122.217 · exact
Slug
light-over-renton-wa-2004-c4cfe9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 86 reports logged in Renton, WA.
  • This case is one of 248 Washington reports filed in 2004.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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