CaseCircle2021
Seattle, WA, USA
Blue/Green orb stationary then flies away.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-17
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-seattle-wa-2021-1ae79b
Wave
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…
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 190 reports came from Washington in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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