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

  • 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

  • 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 days

Report

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