Richland, WA, USA
My 5-year-old and I saw a bright spiky object in sky, which dropped/disappeared quickly in a couple seconds.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-26
- Where
- Richland, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 46.286, -119.284 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-richland-wa-2022-9f7c63
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
- Richland, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 52 reports came from Washington in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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