Seattle, WA, USA
Seen in the SE sky over chuch, bright light too big to be a star,it was complety still. then in split second disappaered going SW at sp
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-04
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1to2 seconds
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-seattle-wa-1997-0c1028
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Seattle, WA reports filed in November 1997.
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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