Spokane Valley, WA, USA
Bright light, changing color from white to red, moving east over Spokane Valley, WA
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-12
- Where
- Spokane Valley, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.673, -117.239 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-spokane-valley-wa-2009-8c1031
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Spokane Valley, WA reports filed in August 2009.
In context
- Spokane Valley, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from Washington in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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