Olympia (East of), WA, USA
We drove up to my house and looked to the North. At about a 45 degree angle we observed a flight of ???? moving from left to right in a
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-14
- Where
- Olympia (East of), WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-olympia-east-of-wa-1997-c30a7b
Part of a wave
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
- Olympia (East of), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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