CaseTeardrop2002

Seattle, WA, USA

Initially a comet in appearance, but speed was too slow.

Report quality: Moderate62/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2002-10-01
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-seattle-wa-2002-928808
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2002

    WA flap 2002-10

    WA, USA

    12 sightings in geohash c23n (WA) during 2002 peak months 10–10; top shape unknown

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 9 Seattle, WA reports filed in October 2002.

Flap

WA flap 2002-10

This report belongs to the WA flap 2002-10 — 12 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
  • 213 reports came from Washington in 2002.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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