La Center, WA, USA
Teardrop like shape traveling east coming from the West. Object was moving fast and low, approximately 100 to 200 feet off the ground.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-04
- Where
- La Center, WA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.862, -122.670 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-la-center-wa-2020-809502
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
- La Center, WA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 0.6% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.