Yakima, WA, USA
Was just getting ready to pull out of parking lot to go get breakfast when i noticed a star like light
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-02
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 00:02:32
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yakima-wa-2011-bac3be
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 — 4 Yakima, WA reports filed in December 2011.
In context
- Yakima, WA shows up 113 times across the archive.
- 304 reports came from Washington in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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