CaseDisk1980
Seattle, WA, USA
It was very shiny silver and 2 Army helicopters followed it.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-05-01
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-seattle-wa-1980-7b15dc
In context
- One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 16 sightings in 1980.
- Disk sightings ran at 14.3% during the 1980s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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