CaseUnknown2004

Tumwater, WA, USA

A brilliant gold light over the Black Hills in the west. It did not move and remained there for 20 minutes then dissapppeared.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-13
Where
Tumwater, WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
47.007, -122.909 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-tumwater-wa-2004-912544
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

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Tumwater, WA.
  • This case is one of 248 Washington reports filed in 2004.

Report

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