CaseOval2007

Richland, WA, USA

Bright blue object spotted in front of a full moon hovering. Then shot straight up into the air at a amazing speed, leaving a trail

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-09-26
Where
Richland, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 min
Geo
46.286, -119.284 · exact
Slug
oval-over-richland-wa-2007-b47b56
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

  • Richland, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 221 reports came from Washington in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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