CaseFireball2011

Cascade Mountains (central part), WA, USA

Fireball appeared in the eastern sky about 9:30 p.m from Dishpan Gap near Glacier peak. Seemed to be releasing tiny blue objects.

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-03
Where
Cascade Mountains (central part), WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
49.750, -121.003 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-cascade-mountains-central-part-wa-2011-f53e74
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Cascade Mountains (central part), WA.
  • This case is one of 304 Washington reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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