CaseLight2017

Coulee Dam, WA, USA

moving light in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a "twinkling" star, perhaps Arcturus. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-08-22
Where
Coulee Dam, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
on going
Geo
47.965, -118.976 · exact
Slug
light-over-coulee-dam-wa-2017-5ced1b
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

  • Coulee Dam, WA shows up 2 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

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