Vancouver, WA, USA
Slow moving flaming fireball moving east to west SW Washington, 9/28/11 20:50
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-28
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 1/2 to 3 minutes
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-vancouver-wa-2011-01154d
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
Vancouver, WA logged 5 reports in the single month of September 2011.
In context
- One of 223 documented reports from Vancouver, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 304 sightings in 2011.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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