CaseLight2012

Olympia, WA, USA

Big, bright, white, oval light with a blue flash falling fast in the sky over Olympia, WA

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-16
Where
Olympia, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 seconds max
Geo
47.045, -122.902 · exact
Slug
light-over-olympia-wa-2012-c0655f
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

  • This is one of 112 reports logged in Olympia, WA.
  • This case is one of 427 Washington reports filed in 2012.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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.