CaseFlash2012

Issaquah, WA, USA

Traveling, silent bright blue lights flashing/lighting up the sky.

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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-17
Where
Issaquah, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
15-30 seconds
Geo
47.530, -122.033 · exact
Slug
flash-over-issaquah-wa-2012-44f7bd
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 52 reports logged in Issaquah, WA.
  • This case is one of 427 Washington reports filed in 2012.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.