Lynnwood, WA, USA
A bright light caught my eye in the sky to the west. It seemed to hover in circles. I went to get binoculars, 6x30, & located object
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-16
- Where
- Lynnwood, WA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 47.821, -122.315 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-lynnwood-wa-2006-bbbc5f
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 64 reports logged in Lynnwood, WA.
- This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.