Wapato, WA, USA
Formation changed from straight line to rhombus solid orange light ,orbs were individual in nature
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-01
- Where
- Wapato, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 46.448, -120.420 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-wapato-wa-2012-0b7df7
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Wapato, WA.
- This case is one of 427 Washington reports filed in 2012.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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