Vancouver, WA, USA
Driving north in Vancouver, Washington, approx. 8:30pm on April 6th 2014, I noticed a bright orange light in the northern sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-06
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5+ minutes
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-vancouver-wa-2014-ae31f4
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…
Local cluster
April 2014 was a busy month for Vancouver, WA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 223 reports logged in Vancouver, WA.
- This case is one of 373 Washington reports filed in 2014.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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