Seattle, WA, USA
[seattle] Chain of 8 equally spaced, fast moving constant orange lights over Cascades, Western Washington.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-29
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-seattle-wa-2012-840f80
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Seattle, WA in September 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 427 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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