CaseLight1998
Burien (looking SW, three tree point to Vashon Island), WA, USA
Ball of light trailing tail, white. changed direction several times, no noticeable lights blinking or sound. 2000 to 2500 ft elevation.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-04
- Where
- Burien (looking SW, three tree point to Vashon Island), WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 7 min
- Geo
- 47.470, -122.347 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-burien-looking-sw-three-tree-point-to-vashon-island-wa-1998-479acb
In context
- Burien (looking SW, three tree point to Vashon Island), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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