CaseChanging2012

Richland, WA, USA

2 still lights that changed into multi colored flashing lights that changed speed, dir., very quickly. ((NUFORC Note: Planets? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 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
2012-03-13
Where
Richland, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
46.286, -119.284 · exact
Slug
changing-over-richland-wa-2012-196323
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

  • Richland, WA has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 427 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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