CaseFireball2011

Spokane, WA, USA

2 fireball like lights,silent.south to north.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-31
Where
Spokane, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-spokane-wa-2011-b5ad49
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Spokane, WA reports filed in December 2011.

In context

  • Spokane, WA shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 304 reports came from Washington in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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