Grand Coulee, WA, USA
((HOAX))((NUFORC Note: All contact information is bogus. PD)) Triangular craft taking photos or absorbing power.
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 1650s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-05-22
- Where
- Grand Coulee, WA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25-30 minutes
- Geo
- 47.942, -119.003 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-grand-coulee-wa-2016-53d097
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 4 documented reports from Grand Coulee, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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