CaseFlash1998
Seattle, WA, USA
Bright, multi-colored (mostly green and blue, but some red) flashes across the eastern horizon.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-20
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- ~10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-seattle-wa-1998-597aa2
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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