CaseSphere1999
Fort Lewis (I-5 freeway), WA, USA
Very large bright white sphere moving almost as fast as a shooting star disappearing into cloud cover within seconds.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-09
- Where
- Fort Lewis (I-5 freeway), WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 47.062, -122.583 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fort-lewis-i-5-freeway-wa-1999-8d3adb
In context
- Fort Lewis (I-5 freeway), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 237 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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