UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Coupeville, WA, USA

One extremely bright, round, silent orange object. Moved in very fast, stopped, then moved up and away.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-16
Where
Coupeville, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
48.220, -122.686 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-coupeville-wa-2013-a7c9f0
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…

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In context

  • Coupeville, WA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 321 reports came from Washington in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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