Kent, WA, USA
Was looking thru a telescope at the moon in 1997 month is not exact. However my cousin and I were looking at the moon with a telescope.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-15
- Where
- Kent, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.381, -122.235 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-kent-wa-1997-116579
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Kent, WA shows up 74 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% 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.