CaseSphere1989

Bellevue, WA, USA

A huge Globe-shaped object is seen at very high altitude-stationary and soundless in the hazy, evening sky of late summer

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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-09-06
Where
Bellevue, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20-25 sec.
Geo
47.610, -122.201 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bellevue-wa-1989-cfa5d1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • This is one of 95 reports logged in Bellevue, WA.
  • This case is one of 8 Washington reports filed in 1989.
  • Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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