UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Rochester, WA, USA

Singular light seen low in evening sky near Rochester, WA. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 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
2013-09-18
Where
Rochester, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
46.822, -123.096 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rochester-wa-2013-7251dc
Wave

Part of a wave

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    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • Rochester, WA shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 321 reports came from Washington in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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