Olympia, WA, USA
My friend and I were on the porch facing NE at around 1 am, when all of a sudden all of the street lamps went out and the sky lit up.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-18
- Where
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-olympia-wa-2015-27a4e3
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
- Olympia, WA shows up 112 times across the archive.
- 275 reports came from Washington in 2015.
- 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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