CaseUnknown1996
Seattle, WA, USA
Young man sees "yellow tinged fireball with neon green tail" streak from E to W in N sky. Tail was curving down, and oddly green.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-17
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 sec.
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-seattle-wa-1996-477b50
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Seattle, WA in December 1996 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 115 reports from Washington.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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