UFOMYST
CaseFlash2004

Yakima, WA, USA

Strange Yellow White Light in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Flare from Iridium satellite. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-19
Where
Yakima, WA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
46.602, -120.506 · exact
Slug
flash-over-yakima-wa-2004-e07980
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Yakima, WA has 113 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 248 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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