CaseFormation1997

Seattle, WA, USA

Siting at stop light on Alaskan Way, heading west. Streaks of lights came flying across the sky, coming from over the Puget Sound. Th

Report quality: High73/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
formation-over-seattle-wa-1997-71faf2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Seattle, WA logged 4 reports in the single month of November 1997.

In context

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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