CaseLight1996
Whidbey Island, WA, USA
Two women witness 3 "huge, bright golden lights" hovering above water to NW of home. Objs. dimmed in sequence, 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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-05
- Where
- Whidbey Island, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 48.293, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-whidbey-island-wa-1996-7bd65e
In context
- Whidbey Island, WA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Washington in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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