Spokane, WA, USA
Large bright stationary spherical object appearing to be with earth atmosphere about 45 degrees above horizon.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-05
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-spokane-wa-2014-60a9d1
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 235 reports logged in Spokane, WA.
- This case is one of 373 Washington reports filed in 2014.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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