CaseRectangle1996
Ellensburg, WA, USA
Clear sunny day, 3 adults saw small silver sphere that hovered for about 1 minute directly overhead. It then suddenly took off to the e
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-07-15
- Where
- Ellensburg, WA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 mins.
- Geo
- 46.997, -120.548 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-ellensburg-wa-1996-85e27b
In context
- Ellensburg, WA shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Washington in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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