CaseTeardrop2006

Kent, WA, USA

On monday night at 8:45 PM, 7-17-06 in Kent, Wa., I was watching a jet plane flying overhead very low on it's approach to land at Boein

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-07-17
Where
Kent, WA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
4 min.
Geo
47.381, -122.235 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-kent-wa-2006-4d9ec7
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

  • This is one of 74 reports logged in Kent, WA.
  • This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
  • Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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