La Center, WA, USA
It was white from the sun reflecting off it. It had a trail like a jet but the trail was disappearing which left it a very short tail f
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-21
- Where
- La Center, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 45.862, -122.670 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-la-center-wa-2020-bcfafe
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
- La Center, WA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 371 reports from Washington.
- The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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