CaseOval2005

Centralia, WA, USA

Sighted what appeared to be two meteors entering the atmosphere and another object of unkown origin.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-26
Where
Centralia, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
46.716, -122.954 · exact
Slug
oval-over-centralia-wa-2005-d4a067
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

  • Centralia, WA shows up 30 times across the archive.
  • 192 reports came from Washington in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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