CaseFormation1997

Issaquah, WA, USA

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Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-20
Where
Issaquah, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.530, -122.033 · exact
Slug
formation-over-issaquah-wa-1997-713711
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

  • This is one of 52 reports logged in Issaquah, WA.
  • This case is one of 89 Washington reports filed in 1997.
  • Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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