UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1997

Seattle, WA, USA

Attorney/public employee sees peculiar white light move across cloudy sky very rapidly. "Looked like a lightbulb." Flew behind cloud.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-23
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 sec.
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-seattle-wa-1997-85d913
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 713 documented reports from Seattle, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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