Olympia, WA, USA
Diamond shaped object flying south from Seattle towards Portland with 1 light on each corner and a red beam rotating from underneath.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-12-15
- Where
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- appox 10 mins
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-olympia-wa-1973-ad040f
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- One of 112 documented reports from Olympia, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 9 sightings in 1973.
- Diamond sightings ran at 0.7% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.4%).
Report
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