CaseLight2017

Seattle, WA, USA

Very bright blue-green light moving eastward at a very high rate of speed.

Report quality: Moderate57/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-10-08
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
light-over-seattle-wa-2017-9da9c2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Seattle, WA reports filed in October 2017.

In context

  • Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
  • 205 reports came from Washington in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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