Cylinder over Kelso, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Back in 1996 in kelso washington,i saw a cylinder inthe night sky at first it was grey then it turned and it was yellowish orange.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1996-04-12 → 1996-04-29
From the same sky
Related entries
December 18, 2023 · 4:57 PM · DISK
Kelso, WA
The UFO was a disc shaped object and it was black.It was moving smoothly side to side then it vastly moved away. It looked like it was going around 500 miles per hour. It was close to 600 feet in the air. There was only one UFO but there where 2 viewers of looking at it.
August 7, 2020 · 4:40 AM · OVAL
Kelso, WA
We saw an oval shaped object at about 3000' elevation. Object had dim light running through center. Looked like Blimp, but didn't have any noise from engines. It was traveling North at higher speed than any Blimp I've seen.
September 19, 2019 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Kelso, WA
perfect circle, bright white... brighter than all other aircraft / stars in the early night (just got dark outside) sky. other planes were in the air... this was much much brighter, and had absolutely no blinking lights on it. it flew in a straight line from west to east. as it disappeared from our view behind treeline, i noticed 1 fast moving jet flying toward its direction from my north/nw (maybe from seattle) the object flew straight...at same speed probably abiut 100 mph+)
February 8, 2018 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Kelso, WA
My husband and our friend and I were just smoking a cig outside, when our friend pointed out a red lifht in the sky and said “watch that light, it’s doing weird things.” So all three of us watched as it continued kind of like a plane, but faster when it slowed down to stop and hovered for approximately 5 seconds then started traveling the opposite way. Then it stopped again and just disappeared. We were all yelling “whoa! It disappeared” and just then it reappeared and did the same thing again but this time it flashed white 2 or 3 times before it took off the other direction again. We watched it until it disappeared again. Waited for 5 minutes for it to reappear again but we are on the clock and had to get back to work. When it came to a stop it almost looked as though it bounced..like a ball in semi slow motion when you throw it against a wall. My iPhone couldn’t see it to get a video.
February 14, 2017 · 1:15 AM · LIGHT
Kelso, WA
Was driving home from work, when a bright light flashed in front of me. It was blinding. When I came to my senses I was still driving, but 13 minutes had passed. I also noted that the song on the radio had changed. Upon getting home found burns on my upper back, and the back of my hands. We have responded to the source of the report, requesting to see photos of the burns. PD
December 16, 2016 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Kelso, WA
Was in back yard looked south saw a fire looking movement and colors but looked like above it was a white shape told my wife to go to the front of the house something was falling from the sky she tell it's coming this way north stopped at treeline and to off up at a high right then slowed