CaseLight2014

Spokane Valley, WA, USA

My young son and I were at 16th and Bowdish. We saw what we thought was a small plane perhaps losing an engine. It lit up then we saw

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-24
Where
Spokane Valley, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
47.673, -117.239 · exact
Slug
light-over-spokane-valley-wa-2014-258f48
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

  • Spokane Valley, WA shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 373 reports came from Washington in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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