UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Yakima, WA, USA

3 or 4 lights going in circular motions & then meeting as 1. ((NUFORC Note: Consistent with advertising lights. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-01-25
Where
Yakima, WA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20 min
Geo
46.602, -120.506 · exact
Slug
other-over-yakima-wa-2009-737ad4
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In context

  • This is one of 113 reports logged in Yakima, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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