CaseUnknown1996
Seattle, WA, USA
Man looking W over Pug. Sound from high-rise apt. sees large "flattened oval of red/orange light" arch across sky in perfect arc.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-05
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-seattle-wa-1996-5dac69
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Seattle, WA reports filed in December 1996.
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Washington in 1996.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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