Centralia, WA, USA
Sighted over Cooks Hill Road and Joppish Road just west of I-5. Dusk clear sky. Large fireball long tail red flame with yellow and blue
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-05
- Where
- Centralia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 secs
- Geo
- 46.716, -122.954 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-centralia-wa-2006-005b48
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 30 documented reports from Centralia, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 178 sightings in 2006.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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