Issaquah, WA, USA
January 9, 2016. Last night there was a very bright light in the sky over Issaquah. It was a very clear sky.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-08
- Where
- Issaquah, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 47.530, -122.033 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-issaquah-wa-2016-a2724c
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
- This is one of 52 reports logged in Issaquah, WA.
- This case is one of 229 Washington reports filed in 2016.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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