CaseTeardrop1980
Kent, WA, USA
August, 6 p.m., clear day, UFO at 1000 ft altitude, airspeed approx. 150 knots, circular, no sound, black color., six witnesses.,
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-08-22
- Where
- Kent, WA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 47.381, -122.235 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-kent-wa-1980-c81a6d
In context
- This is one of 74 reports logged in Kent, WA.
- This case is one of 16 Washington reports filed in 1980.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.4% of 1980s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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