Burien, WA, USA
Looked out my deck toward shorewood beach and saw a black shaped boomerang come out of water with a man in a suit of some kind hovering
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-13
- Where
- Burien, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 47.470, -122.347 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-burien-wa-2020-2331fc
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
- Burien, WA has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 371 reports from Washington.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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