Auburn, WA, USA
On 7/4/09 at 10:00 pm myself and 11 other adults saw what I thought at first was a firework in the sky to the southwest.After a few sho
Report quality: High81/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-auburn-wa-2009-d4d3a5
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Auburn, WA reports filed in July 2009.
In context
- Auburn, WA shows up 104 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from Washington in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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