Unspecified over Woodinville, WA
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The report, as filed
Man reports seeing obj. in apparent polar orbit (?), that appeared to be emitting an erratic strobing effect. (Tumbling satellite??)
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1996-01-29 → 1996-02-15
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September 9, 2023 · 8:28 AM · CIGAR
Woodinville, WA
Large cigar shaped object. White or reflective in the sun. No visible control surfaces, no sound. I have an aviation background and can identify most civilian and military aircraft by shape and sound. First observed directly above my head as I looked up while in a seated position. Noticed the object, at first glance I thought it must be a plane as we’re in the landing flight path for a regional airport. But I noticed at a longer glance I could not identify it because it had no control surfaces. Not quite sure what to make of it I waited until it had passed my position trying to listen for the sound of the jet engine. It was dead silent. Total observed time was about 20 seconds. I grabbed my phone to take a picture but it had passed out of view going to the NW. I opened my flight radar app immediately and there was nothing transponding anywhere near me on radar. Details: - 8:28-8:29AM Sat Sept 9th 2023 - Not any identifiable aircraft to me - No flight surfaces of any kind - No sounds - Color white or silver - No visible lights - Estimated size, about the size of a 747 fuselage from my vantage point. Fight Characteristics: - Flying in a straight line at a steady speed - Heading: 308deg NW coming from the NE - Estimated altitude 2-5k feet - Estimated speed 250kph best guess - Not transponding via flight radar app (screenshot attached) Environmental Conditions: - Weather 58deg no clouds, visibility 17 miles wind at ground level 2mph from the North Barometric pressure: 30.14 inHG *Three images included. One of the flight radar app at the time. One from my observation point. One of the weather conditions at the time
January 22, 2021 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Woodinville, WA
Every night out walking the dog if it is clear out I will check out to see how many drones and their positions. Flashing red green for Port & starboard. Running west to east. Just east of Linwood going east to maltby and past echo lake . And one north of Woodinville Washington running North Clearview and two more north of Clearview. Constantly there I am in a jetpack but the Jets avoid these areas at night.
February 19, 2020 · 5:45 AM · CIRCLE
Woodinville, WA
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December 15, 2019 · 10:05 AM
Woodinville, WA
Looking into sky the normal starin the sky I had seen for a number of winter nights moved rapidly to the east instead of moving to the west as normally observered in the winter months .
January 5, 2018 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Woodinville, WA
The light seem to appear to be silently floating around near the creek about 30 feet or so up in the air and as I got closer I saw there were two lights that appeared orange in color and seemed to be very small. I started recording with my phone and as I got closer one became bright very much like a small, but intense LED as if it turned to face my direction. I couldn’t tell if it had a light in front and perhaps rotated or if it just changed and became bright. Both ended up doing this off and on and continued to float through and around the trees from East to West. As I went back toward my house to get my wife to witness I saw a couple more in the neighbor’s field on the other side of our property as well. They were completely silent and ranging from about 20 – 40 feet off the ground, all moving from East to West. Although I heard no noise, I later found watching the video that the microphone did pick up a strange clicking type of noise when it was at its closest. I was a bit freaked out and went inside and asked my wife to come out and verify I was seeing what I was seeing. My behavior was scaring her a bit but when I pointed them out, she saw them and was also surprises and a little scared. I went back outside and to the neighbor’s house to show him as well. Over about an hour a saw perhaps a dozen of these lights. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Afterward I went back home and became very tired, falling asleep on the couch. Although I didn’t experience an loss of time nor did I touch or make any physical contact, my wife and kids told me the next day I was moving and twisting around on the couch hitting my head with my hands and that my head was sweating profusely. They said they tried to wake me but couldn’t. I felt like I slept very soundly and don’t recall any of that.
July 4, 2017 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Woodinville, WA
I am open to any explanation as to what I saw, but, I feel I am pretty good at identifying aerial phenomenon, and I can’t figure this one out. 7/4/2017, 2155 hours PST, watching fireworks. I already know what you are thinking. No. Not 30 seconds before I stated, maybe we will see a UFO. And then there it was. The following is why I am baffled. Location, general, King County, Washington State, general street coordinates 195 Av NE/NE 175 St. Direction of flight, southeast. Appearance, looked like the ISS going over, but about 5 or more times faster in travel, and….maybe twice as bright. ISS is not supposed to be visible here tonight. There was an Iridium Flare listed for about 2155, but I thought it was going to flare to the north, not travel southeast-bound like a bright, non-dimming object that looked like a bright ISS. My millisecond thought process as I watched it for about 4-5 seconds (it was moving out!) was at first….oh, there’s a piece of burning magnesium powder from a firework. Wait, it is not dimming, and it is moving in a straight line. Oh, looks like the ISS. Negative, it is not visible tonight. This is too fast, the speed is like a low flying airplane going over. But it is bright. Maybe an aircraft, no, not seeing any green/red navigation lights, just looks exactly like a bright ISS. The only way I can try to explain it is, but I don’t believe my own explanation because of what I saw, was, a helicopter flying over with a bright search light shining mainly downward, drowning out the red/green nav lights, and I can’t hear it because of the fireworks in the area. So, UFO is correct in that, I can’t identify what I saw. I would welcome any explanation because I am not sure how to classify this in my own mind. If I could look at radar recordings in this area, I would do so. If anybody can, and they can tell me what the heck it was that we saw, I would appreciate it. I only had, at best, 10 degrees of view because of a nearby tree, but we saw it continue on, without dimming, through the branches a couple times. UPDATE: I started reporting this at about 2245 hours PST, 7/4/2017. My brother texted, and we have since spoken on the phone. He is in Maui. His text, at 2252 hours PST was, “I think I just saw the space station go over Maui here and it was hauling as_”. More texts, and I had to call him. He is in Kaanapoli. Looking WNW between Molokai and Lanai Islands. He sees something in the sky to the SW, south of Lanai, moving generally west to east, but south of his location. I questioned him carefully. No nav lights, looked exactly like the ISS, not dimmer or brighter, but many times faster. He thought, jet airliner altitude (30000 feet or so). He explained it away as the ISS, but hauling as_. He next explained it away as a satellite losing altitude and coming back to earth. No trail at all, like shooting stars or space debris (which I have seen back in I believe the 90’s when a piece of Soviet debris came down and was visible from Washington State, it left a green trail! as it burned on re-entry). How long did he see it? 2 to 3 seconds! Wow. Mine was 4-5 seconds, and I am sure he had a better view in Maui. The thing was moving fast!. Ok, I am done for now. I have not been stumped by objects in the sky until tonight, and I am in my 50’s. So, there it is, for comparison to other reports. My gut feeling is, if my girlfriend and I saw something and my brother saw something far away in Maui, there may be a slew of sightings coming in! While I was typing this, my girlfriend already found youtube videos from tonight with ufo’s, UFO spotted in Norwalk, California, July 7th 2017. But, the ufo in that video was barely moving compared to what we saw. And, what we saw was more of a white light, like the ISS, not orange. Signing off. I hope to learn from other reports if I am still waiting to see my first UFO, or if this is explainable and I need to keep looking. Thanks PD! And, PD, please reply if this can be explained.