Issaquah, WA, USA
Stationary white light appeared got brighter, moved in a "J" shape, then disappeared.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-15
- Where
- Issaquah, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 47.530, -122.033 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-issaquah-wa-2014-364ca6
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…
In context
- Issaquah, WA shows up 52 times across the archive.
- 373 reports came from Washington in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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