CaseCircle2017

Spokane, WA, USA

While trying to capture photos of the Northern Lights on Sunday evening/early morning Monday, I witnessed a flashing light that went fr

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-17
Where
Spokane, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Seconds
Geo
47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug
circle-over-spokane-wa-2017-c08ca2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2017 was a busy month for Spokane, WA: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 235 reports logged in Spokane, WA.
  • This case is one of 205 Washington reports filed in 2017.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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