Lake Stevens, WA, USA
10 year old son startled by flash of light when he looks at the dark sky throw the window he sees yellow sphere moving in medium speed
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-11-17
- Where
- Lake Stevens, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 48.015, -122.064 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lake-stevens-wa-2019-d30814
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
- Lake Stevens, WA has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 239 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.