CaseOval2017
Kalama, WA, USA
Green then orange ball.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-24
- Where
- Kalama, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 46.008, -122.844 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-kalama-wa-2017-a45ebc
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
- Kalama, WA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 205 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.