CaseTriangle2019

Federal Way, WA, USA

Triangle hovering low next to highway near SeaTac airport

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-09
Where
Federal Way, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
47.322, -122.313 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-federal-way-wa-2019-27986f
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

  • Federal Way, WA has 59 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 239 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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