CaseLight2013
Bellingham, WA, USA
Large star like light hangs in the sky for over 5 hours & disappears.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 18000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-24
- Where
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- >5 hours
- Geo
- 48.760, -122.488 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bellingham-wa-2013-4158b1
Wave
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
- Bellingham, WA has 136 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 321 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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