CaseDisk1997

Elma, WA, USA

It was saucer shaped, a dome with a ring around it which rotated, windows in the dome, white like bright light, flying low.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Elma, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
Geo
47.003, -123.409 · exact
Slug
disk-over-elma-wa-1997-aedba5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

In context

  • Elma, WA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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