Federal Way, WA, USA
me and my friend were talking on the phone and i look out the window and saw a ball of light orange-red and it was slowly speed up and
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-17
- Where
- Federal Way, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 min.
- Geo
- 47.322, -122.313 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-federal-way-wa-2005-410471
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
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Federal Way, WA.
- This case is one of 192 Washington reports filed in 2005.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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