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

  • Historical wave1997

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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 days

Report

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