CaseCylinder1999
Bellevue/Mercer Island (between, westbound on I-90), WA, USA
Silver rod the size of a 1.5" section of slender ballpoint at arm's length. Rose rapidly at 30 degrees for 5 seconds. Lost to view.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-26
- Where
- Bellevue/Mercer Island (between, westbound on I-90), WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.610, -122.201 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-bellevue-mercer-island-between-westbound-on-i-90-wa-1999-efbe27
In context
- Bellevue/Mercer Island (between, westbound on I-90), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 237 reports came from Washington in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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