CaseTeardrop2009

Twisp, WA, USA

Reviewing my digital photo's after a 4 day hike I see in one of them what looks like an UFO, we saw nothing while shooting.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-12
Where
Twisp, WA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
Geo
48.363, -120.122 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-twisp-wa-2009-4481fd
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…

In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Twisp, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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