CaseLight2021
Yakima, WA, USA
Bright light in sky
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (19 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-06-27
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-yakima-wa-2021-eeef3f
Wave
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
- Yakima, WA has 113 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 190 reports from Washington.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.