UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

Arlington, WA, USA

At 3:20 a.m. I looked out the peephole in the door, and I saw a white object in the sky outside my house. It changed shapes,ovals, tria

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-26
Where
Arlington, WA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
48.199, -122.125 · exact
Slug
changing-over-arlington-wa-1997-1afa57
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Arlington, WA shows up 54 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 1.9% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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