CaseTriangle2018

Kent, WA, USA

Looked up into the sky to see a red blinking light hovering over what seemed to be Auburn, WA. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-03-03
Where
Kent, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 minutes +
Geo
47.381, -122.235 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-kent-wa-2018-511ce1
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

  • Kent, WA shows up 74 times across the archive.
  • 172 reports came from Washington in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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