CaseLight2011

Yakima, WA, USA

bright, white, star-like object, moving silently west to east in the northern sky over Ahtanum, WA

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-06-09
Where
Yakima, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 or 6 seconds
Geo
46.602, -120.506 · exact
Slug
light-over-yakima-wa-2011-ee25b3
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Yakima, WA logged 3 reports in the single month of June 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 days

Report

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