UFOMYST
Caseother1997

Seattle, WA, USA

I was on highway 520 going home and saw a black, silent "elongated key" shape traveling south over lake WA dissappered (cut into clouds

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-03
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
other
Duration
2-4min
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
other-over-seattle-wa-1997-8370e0
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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