Pasco, WA, USA
Saw a strange object, changing from narrow to space ship form to narrow with an extremely bright white light during daylight hours.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-03
- Where
- Pasco, WA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 46.240, -119.101 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-pasco-wa-2016-274475
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 28 reports logged in Pasco, WA.
- This case is one of 229 Washington reports filed in 2016.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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