Renton, WA, USA
4 yellowish-orange balls with streaming tails moving very slowly from West to East disappearing behind the Cascade foothills.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-14
- Where
- Renton, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 47.483, -122.217 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-renton-wa-1997-a56aff
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Renton, WA shows up 86 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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