CaseFormation2015

Wenatchee, WA, USA

7 lights in the sky, spinning in a slow circle for about 3 minutes before a helicopter hovered underneath and they all disappeared.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-16
Where
Wenatchee, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
47.423, -120.310 · exact
Slug
formation-over-wenatchee-wa-2015-db6907
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…

In context

  • This is one of 73 reports logged in Wenatchee, WA.
  • This case is one of 275 Washington reports filed in 2015.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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