Federal Way, WA, USA
Non-satellite object grows brighter in evening sky and then flies away.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-31
- Where
- Federal Way, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 47.322, -122.313 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-federal-way-wa-2014-efcdf5
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
- One of 59 documented reports from Federal Way, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 373 sightings in 2014.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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