Fircrest, WA, USA
Unexplained object high in the sky, bright lights - to barely unnoticable - to disappearing within 8-10 mins.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-20
- Where
- Fircrest, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7 minutes +/- 2
- Geo
- 47.240, -122.516 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fircrest-wa-2008-c6b596
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Fircrest, WA.
- This case is one of 200 Washington reports filed in 2008.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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