CaseFormation1997

West Seattle, WA, USA

Full clear sighting and recall of November 14th, '97 event--Seattle, WA

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
West Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30-90 seconds
Geo
47.571, -122.387 · exact
Slug
formation-over-west-seattle-wa-1997-345211
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in West Seattle, 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

Report

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