CaseOther2004

Ellensburg, WA, USA

Craft that produced no noise, accelerated from still to unreal speeds, had 3 crafts or 3 sections.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-03-17
Where
Ellensburg, WA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15-20 min
Geo
46.997, -120.548 · exact
Slug
other-over-ellensburg-wa-2004-b1bb3c
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…

In context

  • Ellensburg, WA shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 248 reports came from Washington in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.