Bellingham, WA, USA
Multiple orbs/crafts with lights of purple, blue, green and red flying in weird patterns and creating multiple formations.
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 (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-13
- Where
- Bellingham, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 48.760, -122.488 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bellingham-wa-2017-2ddd7a
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 shows up 136 times across the archive.
- 205 reports came from Washington in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.