UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Tacoma, WA, USA

((HOAX??)) Bright Blue wall of light in Tacoma.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2009-09-24
Where
Tacoma, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
47.253, -122.444 · exact
Slug
light-over-tacoma-wa-2009-9e03fd
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 197 documented reports from Tacoma, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 232 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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