CaseOval1997
Seattle, WA, USA
Three objects over downtown Seattle, early morning
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-09
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-seattle-wa-1997-7a2a0f
Wave
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…
In context
- One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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