UFOMYST
CaseFlash2021

West Richland, WA, USA

Driving down keene in west richland facing Rattlesnake mountain. I observed a metallic flash in the sky, almost as if a light was shine

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-28
Where
West Richland, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.304, -119.361 · exact
Slug
flash-over-west-richland-wa-2021-f90dee
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…

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In context

  • West Richland, WA has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 190 reports from Washington.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.1% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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