Seattle, WA, USA
On the night described above, We were getting ready to leave a freind's house in West Seattle. I was the first one out the door. While
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-19
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- other
- Duration
- 1-2 min
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-seattle-wa-1997-122906
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.