Yakima, WA, USA
Far off object moving east to west in north yakima county between the yakima training center and the yakima river rec area.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-10-11
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-yakima-wa-2012-f6721a
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 — 4 Yakima, WA reports filed in October 2012.
In context
- Yakima, WA shows up 113 times across the archive.
- 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.