CaseLight2020

Arlington, WA, USA

We saw 1-2 lights in the sky up above and traveling the very large mountainess hillside. Before recording I saw a light with a beam.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-04
Where
Arlington, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
48.199, -122.125 · exact
Slug
light-over-arlington-wa-2020-7d37cc
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

  • One of 54 documented reports from Arlington, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 371 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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