UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Seattle, WA, USA

Was driving south on I-5 something told me to look up and when I did I seen a big fireball light come into view like a comet going in o

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-28
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-seattle-wa-2017-3f2d00
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Seattle, WA logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2017.

In context

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 205 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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