Puyallup, WA, USA
A silent orange orb flew south and east of my position. Very hard to identify.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-03
- Where
- Puyallup, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1minute
- Geo
- 47.185, -122.293 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-puyallup-wa-2009-dbf16f
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
- One of 85 documented reports from Puyallup, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 232 sightings in 2009.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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