UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Gig Harbor, WA, USA

I saw my first UFO when I was on my way to school as a child.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-20
Where
Gig Harbor, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds to 1 minute
Geo
47.329, -122.580 · exact
Slug
light-over-gig-harbor-wa-1997-cb3128
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 41 documented reports from Gig Harbor, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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