UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Seattle, WA, USA

UFO Sighting in December 1978 in Seattle, WA.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-20
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
disk-over-seattle-wa-1978-aed2fd
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 15 reports from Washington.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure 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.