CaseDisk1978

Covington, WA, USA

Disk-shaped saucer seen over Covinton, WA, 1978

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-05-15
Where
Covington, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.358, -122.122 · exact
Slug
disk-over-covington-wa-1978-51b460
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Covington, WA.
  • This case is one of 15 Washington reports filed in 1978.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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