CaseSphere1996

Seattle, WA, USA

saw circle in lightning

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1996-01-01
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-seattle-wa-1996-bd2d0b

In context

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 115 sightings in 1996.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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