Seattle (downtown; Shoreline), WA, USA
Metallic object "hovering" at altitude over downtown Seattle for at least 10 - 15 minutes - 07/13/05
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-13
- Where
- Seattle (downtown; Shoreline), WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-seattle-downtown-shoreline-wa-2005-e0b000
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…
In context
- Seattle (downtown; Shoreline), WA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 192 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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