CaseChanging1968
Renton, WA, USA
A witness in Renton, Washington reported a huge orange ball over Lake Hills that appeared to change into a triangular shape near Boeing Field before disappearing, during a five-to-ten-minute sighting.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (200 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-01
- Where
- Renton, WA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 47.483, -122.217 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-renton-wa-1968-27f387
In context
- This is one of 86 reports logged in Renton, WA.
- This case is one of 8 Washington reports filed in 1968.
- Changing craft made up 1.1% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.