Yakima, WA, USA
Bright light
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (12 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-04-30
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yakima-wa-2011-c6dfbc
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
Yakima, WA logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2011.
In context
- One of 113 documented reports from Yakima, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 304 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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