UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2016

Ritzville, WA, USA

Fast white dot. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellite in polar orbit?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-09-16
Where
Ritzville, WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
47.128, -118.380 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-ritzville-wa-2016-4626b7
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…

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In context

  • Ritzville, WA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 229 reports came from Washington in 2016.

Report

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