Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
I spotted the object for about three or four seconds to my west at the Safeway grocery store. The object was traveling North and ap
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-24
- Where
- Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 47.626, -122.521 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bainbridge-island-wa-2017-dd7c6b
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 Bainbridge Island, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 205 sightings in 2017.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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