Yakima, WA, USA
((HOAX??)) We witnessed a sphere shaped object that floated around, when we started telling people to look at it started to disappear.
Report quality: Low25/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2014-06-06
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-yakima-wa-2014-7f4b52
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
- Yakima, WA has 113 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 373 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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