Tacoma, WA, USA
3 silent objects flying at extreme speed, first resembled tiny stars but loomed larger as out-of-focus, orange "oval" lights
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-19
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 to 7 seconds
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-tacoma-wa-2006-94a895
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 197 reports logged in Tacoma, WA.
- This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.