CaseTriangle2009

Seattle, WA, USA

I saw triangular lights in the Seattle sky northwest of the Ranier Valley moving rapidly in an oval pattern on 3/20/09 at 22:00. 50

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-03-20
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
I didn't wait to see the
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-seattle-wa-2009-fc7f22
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

Local cluster

Local cluster

March 2009 was a busy month for Seattle, WA: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 713 reports logged in Seattle, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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