Yakima, WA, USA
St. Paddy's Day UFOs over Yakima, Washington
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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 (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-17
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-yakima-wa-2004-ce0ffa
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 Yakima, WA reports filed in March 2004.
In context
- Yakima, WA shows up 113 times across the archive.
- 248 reports came from Washington in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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