North Bend, WA, USA
Cigar shaped craft over observed over cascade foothills. It was moving slowly but disappeared suddenly.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-21
- Where
- North Bend, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 47.496, -121.787 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-north-bend-wa-2005-d5e374
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 26 reports logged in North Bend, WA.
- This case is one of 192 Washington reports filed in 2005.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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