UFOMYST
CaseDisk2009

Stanwood, WA, USA

At approximately 9:00 pm, I noticed a large disk shaped light hovering low in the sky, west from my house. ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-01-18
Where
Stanwood, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 MINUTES
Geo
48.241, -122.371 · exact
Slug
disk-over-stanwood-wa-2009-8fbdbd
Wave

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In context

  • Stanwood, WA has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 232 reports from Washington.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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