Seattle, WA, USA
Saw like a helicopter type thing going low over I-5 but I really couldn't tell if it was a helicopter, that is why I'm saying a helicop
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-22
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-seattle-wa-2021-0eec8d
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 713 reports logged in Seattle, WA.
- This case is one of 190 Washington reports filed in 2021.
- Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.