Yakima, WA, USA
Light....duration 10-15 minutes
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-24
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yakima-wa-2006-bde9d9
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…
Local cluster
April 2006 was a busy month for Yakima, WA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 113 reports logged in Yakima, WA.
- This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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