CaseSphere1996
Seattle, WA, USA
Dimly lit group of colored objects hovering over the Woodland Park Zoo emitting light beams similar to spotlights.I was walking my
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-07
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7 sec.
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-seattle-wa-1996-5e0ee9
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Washington in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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