CaseCircle2015

Glacier, WA, USA

Three people saw a large orange reddish ball in the western night sky with unusual movement never saw anything like it before.

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 (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-20
Where
Glacier, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
48.890, -121.946 · exact
Slug
circle-over-glacier-wa-2015-f3d623
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Glacier, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 275 sightings in 2015.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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