CaseDisk1997

Renton, WA, USA

Disc Shape. 3 witnesses. Flight was a little wobbly.

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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-08
Where
Renton, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5-6 minutes
Geo
47.483, -122.217 · exact
Slug
disk-over-renton-wa-1997-8a654c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Renton, WA shows up 86 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.