UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Spokane Valley, WA, USA

I saw one floating orb while facing north. Thought nothing of it its new years thought it might be helicopter but no noise was heard a

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-01
Where
Spokane Valley, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
47.673, -117.239 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-spokane-valley-wa-2018-865442
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

  • Spokane Valley, WA has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 172 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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