Kent (Auburn, Over S. King Co. Valley), WA, USA
Circular, bright metallic object hovering, seemingly dissapearing and reapearing in the same place high in the sky in South King County
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-09
- Where
- Kent (Auburn, Over S. King Co. Valley), WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.381, -122.235 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-kent-auburn-over-s-king-co-valley-wa-1997-faaea2
Part of a wave
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In context
- Kent (Auburn, Over S. King Co. Valley), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.