UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Birch Bay, WA, USA

Saw two objects go from northwest southwest over ocean and san jaun islands twords bellingham with a long trail

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Birch Bay, WA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
48.918, -122.745 · exact
Slug
other-over-birch-bay-wa-1997-f3491d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Birch Bay, WA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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