Spokane, WA, USA
Bright orangish spheres traveling slowly from east to west then ascending until gone.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-23
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spokane-wa-2011-e7a252
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…
Local cluster
December 2011 was a busy month for Spokane, WA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in Spokane, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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