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
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…
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 daysReport
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