UFOMYST
CaseOval1967

Tacoma, WA, USA

Witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, reported three oval-shaped objects hovering before flying away at a speed they described as too fast to be man-made, during a three-minute sighting in June 1967.

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 (194 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-06-01
Where
Tacoma, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
47.253, -122.444 · exact
Slug
oval-over-tacoma-wa-1967-5612e3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • Tacoma, WA has 197 sightings on file here.
  • 1967 brought 10 reports from Washington.
  • The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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