CaseOval2016

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
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

  • 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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