Spokane, WA, USA
Flat shaped white light traveling fairly slow, with a long trail of red and white tail, almost like what u would see from a plane.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-23
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-spokane-wa-2015-61d7f8
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
- Spokane, WA has 235 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 275 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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