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Date:

November 1896

Time:

None

Place:

Tacoma, Washington

Narratives:

"[in spite of the reports of the month with commonplace explanations] it remained some puzzling episodes which took place in November 1896: [...] (4) A resident of Tacoma, Washington, said he watched something strange in the sky over Mount Rainier one night. For over an hour, he said, an object emitted various coloured rays, which shot out from the thing's centre in every direction like spokes of a wheel. The "object" reportedly moved about with a waving motion, swayed back and forth, and darted from one position to another. [1]

Sources:

[1] Article by Loren Gross in "The mammoth encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters", compiled by Ronald D. Story, Robinson publisher, 2001.

Notes:

Explanation:

Typical of confusion with star or planet low on the horizon through ice clouds.

Counts:

Type of report:	Second hand from unspecified newspaper.
Number of witnesses:	1
Number of named witnesses:	0.
Witnesses occupations:	Not indicated.
Type of location:	Not indicated.
Coordinates:	Lat. 47°15' N, Long. 122°27' W
Coordinates precision:	N/A

Description of "UFO":	Throws multicoloured ray from its center.
Description of "manoeuvers":	Erratic jumps back and forth.
Reactions:	None indicated.
Occupants:	None.
Occupants keywords:	N/A
Communication:	N/A
Language:	N/A
Content:	N/A

Daylight/nocturnal:	Nocturnal.
Weather:	Not indicated.
Observation devices:	None.

Strangeness:	None.
Reliability:	Low.

Explanation(s) at the time:	None indicated.

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