CaseCircle2017

Lacey, WA, USA

Bright reddish pulsing light, that floats around in the sky erratically. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a sighting of Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-01-23
Where
Lacey, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
current
Geo
47.034, -122.823 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lacey-wa-2017-12d598
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

  • Lacey, WA has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 205 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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