Lacey, WA, USA
Three orange lights in a triangle shape the lights looked like fire moving at a high rate of speed at a very high altitude
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-03
- Where
- Lacey, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 to 10 mins
- Geo
- 47.034, -122.823 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lacey-wa-2010-fad9d5
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
- Lacey, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 275 reports came from Washington in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.