Yakima, WA, USA
Eight bright silent pulsating UFOs move over Yakima WA neighborhood and hover for 10 minutes then disappear.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-23
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ten minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-yakima-wa-2011-deb4be
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…
Local cluster
December 2011 was a busy month for Yakima, WA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 113 reports logged in Yakima, WA.
- This case is one of 304 Washington reports filed in 2011.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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