CaseOval2020

Seattle, WA, USA

Large low flying craft over Seattle just barely visible to the eye due to light pollution that did not look, move, or sound normal

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 (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-21
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
oval-over-seattle-wa-2020-e5af46
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Seattle, WA reports filed in February 2020.

In context

  • Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
  • 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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