Tacoma, WA, USA
My kids (12 & 10) were walking near the waterfront in Tacoma and I saw all of the boats in Puget sound and took a picture with my digit
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-03
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 1 second?
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-tacoma-wa-2005-59178a
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
- Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
- 192 reports came from Washington in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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