Olympia, WA, USA
Light gray, possible teardrop shaped object being trailed by short pointed contrail which never changed size.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-11
- Where
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-olympia-wa-2014-be72f7
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Olympia, WA reports filed in September 2014.
In context
- Olympia, WA shows up 112 times across the archive.
- 373 reports came from Washington in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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