Seattle, WA, USA
4 golden/glowing chevrons moving across the sky in formation
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-11
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-seattle-wa-2012-0b4aeb
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 7 Seattle, WA reports filed in August 2012.
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 427 reports came from Washington in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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