CaseSphere2012

Bow, WA, USA

Silent bright light headed east- big and sort of orange. steady speed.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-14
Where
Bow, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 min 30 seconds
Geo
48.562, -122.398 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bow-wa-2012-7bbcb9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Bow, WA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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