Seattle, WA, USA
One object sighted over Seattle Centre. ((NUFORC Note: Photo of bird in flight w/ wings folded. PD))
Report quality: Low36/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-06-06
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- ?
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-seattle-wa-2017-716c95
Part of a wave
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
June 2017 was a busy month for Seattle, WA: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 713 reports logged in Seattle, WA.
- This case is one of 205 Washington reports filed in 2017.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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