CaseFlash2002
Tacoma, WA, USA
A flash of light streaked across the daytime sky at about the altitude of a jet, but at least 10 times faster.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-11-27
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tacoma-wa-2002-5d525a
In context
- Tacoma, WA has 197 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 213 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.