UFOMYST
CaseOval2011

Bothell, WA, USA

If I had to guess, I would say it could have been some sort of prank that was common in the early to mid-60's, where garbage bags were

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-01-16
Where
Bothell, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
—
Geo
47.762, -122.205 · exact
Slug
oval-over-bothell-wa-2011-e40a29
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Bothell, WA shows up 62 times across the archive.
  • 304 reports came from Washington in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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