Republic, WA, USA
The spotting was unusual and ironic. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star, we suspect. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 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
- 2013-08-13
- Where
- Republic, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- proceeding still
- Geo
- 48.648, -118.738 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-republic-wa-2013-0459c9
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
- Republic, WA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 321 reports came from Washington in 2013.
Report
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