CaseLight2004

Redmond, WA, USA

Star-like object, but to bright to be a star. Hovered in the eastern sky for extensive period of time.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-16
Where
Redmond, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30+ minutes
Geo
47.674, -122.122 · exact
Slug
light-over-redmond-wa-2004-c5a929
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

  • Redmond, WA has 67 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 248 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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