CaseFlash2005

Chimacum, WA, USA

Flashing object seen shooting northwest high over the Olympic Peninsula! ((NUFORC Note: Possible tumbling rocket booster?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-05-26
Where
Chimacum, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
48.011, -122.771 · exact
Slug
flash-over-chimacum-wa-2005-2f8ca5
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…

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Chimacum, WA.
  • This case is one of 192 Washington reports filed in 2005.
  • Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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