Trout Lake, WA, USA
UFO shines a beam of light at us then shoots across the night sky and disappears
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-16
- Where
- Trout Lake, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45seconds
- Geo
- 45.997, -121.528 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-trout-lake-wa-2008-f55473
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
- One of 18 documented reports from Trout Lake, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 200 sightings in 2008.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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