Yakima, WA, USA
cigar-shaped object photographed on both the western and eastern horizon. 9 photos,2 sightings,1 object.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-28
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-yakima-wa-2006-b3c3a5
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Yakima, WA reports filed in April 2006.
In context
- Yakima, WA shows up 113 times across the archive.
- 178 reports came from Washington in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.