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 days

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.