UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2008

Olympia, WA, USA

Large rectangular craft following the freeway just above tree level in Olympia-Lacey, WA area.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-01
Where
Olympia, WA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
47.045, -122.902 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-olympia-wa-2008-7de624
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 112 documented reports from Olympia, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 200 sightings in 2008.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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