University Place, WA, USA
We witnessed orange red orbs approximately 500 to 1,000 feet in the air Spaced 30 yards apart all on the same flight plan orbiting.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-25
- Where
- University Place, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.236, -122.550 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-university-place-wa-2014-1430b0
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 20 reports logged in University Place, WA.
- This case is one of 373 Washington reports filed in 2014.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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