CaseSphere2012

Toppenish, WA, USA

Glowing Orange Sphere over Toppenish, WA.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Toppenish, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
35 minutes
Geo
46.377, -120.309 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-toppenish-wa-2012-ac7669
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

  • Toppenish, WA has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 427 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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