Seattle, WA, USA
I saw a monolithic "L"-shaped stone looking object in low orbit with my low powered scope one night in 1966.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-seattle-wa-1966-0cffbb
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 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 14 sightings in 1966.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 0.9% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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