CaseTeardrop2012
Omak, WA, USA
The light split up and came back together over and over.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-15
- Where
- Omak, WA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 48.411, -119.528 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-omak-wa-2012-ebada7
Wave
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
- Omak, WA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% 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.