Tacoma, WA, USA
Witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, reported black, half-sphere-shaped objects arranged in a triangular formation during a sighting lasting one to two minutes in June 1967.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-05
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 to 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tacoma-wa-1967-7c340f
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Washington in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 6.8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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