Sumas, WA, USA
I noticed a strange light in the sky while driving home and it would slowly grow very bright over a long duration of time and then slow
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-03
- Where
- Sumas, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 49.000, -122.265 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-sumas-wa-2015-76c066
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
- Sumas, WA shows up 3 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%.
Report
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