UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1997

Stanwood, WA, USA

2 males witness an extremely bright light descend in W night sky. 5 times size of bright star. 80 deg. angle of descent. No sound.

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 (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-04-21
Where
Stanwood, WA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 sec.
Geo
48.241, -122.371 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-stanwood-wa-1997-b5357e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 30 documented reports from Stanwood, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.

Report

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