UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2005

Ritzville (outside of, Milepost 228, E on I-90), WA, USA

Object with red lights around it, going on for about 2 seconds and off for about 2 seconds, about 50 feet up and 30 feet away from car

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-08
Where
Ritzville (outside of, Milepost 228, E on I-90), WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 to 2 minutes
Geo
47.128, -118.380 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-ritzville-outside-of-milepost-228-e-on-i-90-wa-2005-248b5f
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…

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In context

  • Ritzville (outside of, Milepost 228, E on I-90), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 192 reports from Washington.

Report

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