Burien, WA, USA
((HOAX??) This a.m. the sky was normal blue, but the sky over Puget Sound to Vashon became dark gray this a.m., then rain mixed snow.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 28800s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-01-04
- Where
- Burien, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- all night
- Geo
- 47.470, -122.347 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-burien-wa-2016-d460d1
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
- Burien, WA shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 229 reports came from Washington in 2016.
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.