CaseChanging2020

Spanaway, WA, USA

A large bright stationary "star" spit out several star looking objects which would then disperse in different directions.

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 (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-22
Where
Spanaway, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
47.104, -122.435 · exact
Slug
changing-over-spanaway-wa-2020-be8006
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 35 reports logged in Spanaway, WA.
  • This case is one of 371 Washington reports filed in 2020.
  • Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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