Spokane, WA, USA
Moving circular white light/object slows down, merges with second, smaller light, combined object turns 90 degrees, and disappears.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-30
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~1 minutes
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-spokane-wa-2018-7df6cc
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
Spokane, WA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2018.
In context
- One of 235 documented reports from Spokane, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 172 sightings in 2018.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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