UFOMYST
CaseRectangle1966

Seattle, WA, USA

Near Seattle, Washington in 1966, a witness using a low-powered telescope reported a monolithic, L-shaped, stone-like rectangular object in low orbit, observed for about five minutes.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (183 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
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  • 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

  • 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%).

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