UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Rock Island, WA, USA

Glowing orange ball in the sky above wenatchee wa. MovING West to East. Fading out over rock island. ((anonymous report))

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-16
Where
Rock Island, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
47.377, -120.144 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rock-island-wa-2017-074923
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Rock Island, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 205 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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