UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Spokane, WA, USA

A friend and I were driving and saw something odd in the sky coming towards us. We pulled over along with some other people to watch.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-14
Where
Spokane, WA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15-20 mins
Geo
47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug
disk-over-spokane-wa-1978-bb2049
Wave

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In context

  • One of 235 documented reports from Spokane, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 15 sightings in 1978.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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