Seattle, WA, USA
Massive, fiery, black diamond with perfect straight edges hovers over hillside in Seattle
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-14
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-seattle-wa-1997-614bb8
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
November 1997 was a busy month for Seattle, WA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 713 reports logged in Seattle, WA.
- This case is one of 89 Washington reports filed in 1997.
- Diamond craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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