Auburn, WA, USA
4th of July - Red/Orange UFO with bright pusling light - Auburn, Washington - 12 witnesses
Report quality: High77/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-04
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3+ minutes
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-auburn-wa-2009-0bbde2
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…
Local cluster
July 2009 was a busy month for Auburn, WA: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 104 reports logged in Auburn, WA.
- This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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