Renton, WA, USA
Near Renton, Washington on August 14, 1966, a witness reported an oval-shaped object circling a Boeing 727 as it approached landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, over about two minutes.
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 (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-14
- Where
- Renton, WA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.483, -122.217 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-renton-wa-1966-adb257
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from Renton, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 14 sightings in 1966.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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