CaseLight2009

Kent, WA, USA

Looking exactly like Jupiter in night sky, a light appeared high in sky at time of ISS orbiting above, speeds across, vanishes, it exhi

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-13
Where
Kent, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 second
Geo
47.381, -122.235 · exact
Slug
light-over-kent-wa-2009-b81225
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

  • Kent, WA has 74 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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