Wenatchee, WA, USA
Reddish Orange Lights Above Wenatchee.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-28
- Where
- Wenatchee, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.423, -120.310 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wenatchee-wa-2012-cfbc3a
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
3 reports came out of Wenatchee, WA in December 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Wenatchee, WA has 73 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 427 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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