UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Vancouver, WA, USA

Round shape flying across evening sky for about four minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of ISS overflight. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 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
2009-07-18
Where
Vancouver, WA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
45.639, -122.661 · exact
Slug
circle-over-vancouver-wa-2009-73492e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Vancouver, WA has 223 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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