UFOMYST
CaseSphere1966

Kent, WA, USA

Boeing testing a flying saucer

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-05-01
Where
Kent, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
47.381, -122.235 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kent-wa-1966-fe9340
Wave

Part of a wave

  • 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

  • Kent, WA shows up 74 times across the archive.
  • 14 reports came from Washington in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 7.8% 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.