CaseSphere1960
Sumner (Lake Tapps area), WA, USA
In 1960, a witness near Lake Tapps in Sumner, Washington, reported a spiked, spherical object traveling from west to east across the sky over about 30 seconds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-11-11
- Where
- Sumner (Lake Tapps area), WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 47.203, -122.240 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sumner-lake-tapps-area-wa-1960-5cfada
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Sumner (Lake Tapps area), WA.
- This case is one of 7 Washington reports filed in 1960.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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