CaseLight2014

Seattle, WA, USA

Object appeared near the Orion; cycling through a number of colors. ((NUFORC Note: Probably Sirius? PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-01-24
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
light-over-seattle-wa-2014-a06380
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Seattle, WA in January 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 373 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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