UFOMYST
CaseLight1977

Kennewick, WA, USA

Huge circular orbs of flaming red light flew above the river right in front of me one night while I was camping.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-10-15
Where
Kennewick, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.211, -119.137 · exact
Slug
light-over-kennewick-wa-1977-34c328
Wave

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In context

  • One of 69 documented reports from Kennewick, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 7 sightings in 1977.
  • Light sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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