Seattle, WA, USA
Cylindrical object with 3-4 rows of bright lights & vapor between ground & object hovering silently at 500-1000' above ground.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-10
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-seattle-wa-2006-81a521
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 713 reports logged in Seattle, WA.
- This case is one of 178 Washington reports filed in 2006.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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