Concrete (outside of), WA, USA
An incredibly bright, polished silver disk, probably about 35 feet in diameter, in broad daylight, about 75 yards away.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-14
- Where
- Concrete (outside of), WA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 48.539, -121.746 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-concrete-outside-of-wa-1978-48372f
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In context
- Concrete (outside of), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Washington in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.