Vancouver, WA, USA
8/14/16 @ 1:56am. Orange glowing ball disappears, re appeared and disappears again in Vancouver sky. Total time 1min.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-14
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2× 1/2 min...60 sec total
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vancouver-wa-2016-4c78ac
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
- One of 223 documented reports from Vancouver, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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