CaseLight1999
Tacoma, WA, USA
I looked up into the night sky only to see a "comet" streaking across the sky, but then it made a squiggle and disappeared.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-12
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tacoma-wa-1999-898253
In context
- Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
- 237 reports came from Washington in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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