Mercer Island, WA, USA
Colorful object flying over Mercer Island. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius, or model airplane?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 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
- 2012-11-29
- Where
- Mercer Island, WA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.571, -122.222 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-mercer-island-wa-2012-c8a6a3
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
- Mercer Island, WA shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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