Renton, WA, USA
Two lights moving either E or N. Bright, then slowly dimmed same time and rate. Moved like in orbit, one after the other same speed.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-12
- Where
- Renton, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 47.483, -122.217 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-renton-wa-2015-376462
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
- Renton, WA has 86 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 275 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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