CaseFlash2016

Pasco, WA, USA

Large green light seen descending over Pasco, WA.

Report quality: Moderate54/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-09-06
Where
Pasco, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
46.240, -119.101 · exact
Slug
flash-over-pasco-wa-2016-d87645
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

  • Pasco, WA shows up 28 times across the archive.
  • 229 reports came from Washington in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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