CaseUnknown2016
Yakima, WA, USA
Brilliant flash of light followed by a sonic boom
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-28
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-yakima-wa-2016-ec2ddc
Wave
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
- Yakima, WA shows up 113 times across the archive.
- 229 reports came from Washington in 2016.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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