Yelm, WA, USA
Two witnessed glowing orange rectangular object moving through the sky on the night of the "Blue Moon."
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-31
- Where
- Yelm, WA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 46.942, -122.606 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-yelm-wa-2012-b29f06
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 21 documented reports from Yelm, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 427 sightings in 2012.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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