Oakesdale, WA, USA
The object that we saw was a massive oval that produced a loud thruming noise as it passed.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-02
- Where
- Oakesdale, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.128, -117.243 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-oakesdale-wa-2017-22c123
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
- Oakesdale, WA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 205 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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