CaseCircle1998
Seattle, WA, USA
I was taking my wife to the airport heading south on I-5 and we were going by downtown Seattle when looking directly to our west we saw
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-10
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-seattle-wa-1998-3213c0
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Seattle, WA reports filed in August 1998.
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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