CaseCircle1988
Tacoma, WA, USA
Disc follows fighter jets to air base.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-10-15
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tacoma-wa-1988-7e486e
In context
- Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Washington in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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