Oak Harbor, WA, USA
I saw a black cylinder with a dome at one end and flame at the other with thrust sound moving slowly skyward.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 85s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-28
- Where
- Oak Harbor, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 85 seconds
- Geo
- 48.293, -122.643 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-oak-harbor-wa-2013-3420fb
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…
In context
- One of 27 documented reports from Oak Harbor, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 321 sightings in 2013.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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