UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1997

Lakewood, WA, USA

Man sees 5 prominent shafts of "emerald green" light in N sky radiating in a "fan pattern." Seemed to come from one point in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-20
Where
Lakewood, WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 sec.
Geo
47.172, -122.518 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-lakewood-wa-1997-aeeca1
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Lakewood, WA shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from Washington in 1997.

Report

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