CaseSphere1972
Federal Way, WA, USA
A witness in Federal Way, Washington reported a small, softball-sized, silver, glass-like spherical object during a brief five-second sighting in July 1972.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (156 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-20
- Where
- Federal Way, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.322, -122.313 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-federal-way-wa-1972-a14b92
In context
- Federal Way, WA shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Washington in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.