Fireball over Port Townsend, WA
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The report, as filed
Giant Blue-Green fireball falls from the sky at 0530 in washington state
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 2002-09-28 → 2002-10-15
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August 4, 2021 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Townsend, WA
The experience unfolded in three parts: 1 — At roughly 10pm on Wednesday, August 4, I was gazing outside my bedside window as I listened to a book on tape. I stargaze often & I keep a pair of small binoculars on my nightstand to see deeper into the night sky. I noticed what appeared to be a satellite crossing my field of vision. Watching the light, it began to curve in an upward direction, circled back counterclockwise, & then settled motionless in the sky, seemingly appearing as just another star. I immediately grabbed my binoculars for a closer look. Inspecting the light/object, it shined in a manner that the nearby stars did not. The light seemed to curve & as I looked at it, I noted that it "twisted" its light in a very peculiar fashion. It was as if a dark serpentine tether was flailing around the object. I watched it remain stationary for another few minutes with no further light anomalies. I resigned that it was simply a drone & that, perhaps, police or military were testing out their technologies in the air space just offshore as they often do. 2 — This is where things get weird. Approximately 5-15 minutes after I observed this object in the night sky, I was again sitting on my bed, listening to the book on tape, with only my nightstand quartz lamp lighting my room. Suddenly, I had a strong intuition that something was about to happen. It was a feeling similar to the onset of deja vu. This feeling was followed by my room being LIT UP with a gridwork of white shining light. Imagine 10 strobe lights going off at once, but contained to a very geometrical grid that roughly spanned a 10' x 10' space across my bedroom. The grid FLASHED twice & vanished. I was completely stunned. Not necessarily in shock, but just stunned. These were not car lights. This was not like anything I've ever laid eyes on in my life. Yet my initial instinct was not in fear, but curiosity. I removed my headphones & again it happened, maybe 10-15 seconds after the initial flash. Except this time I noticed a small ball of light (roughly the size of your fist) tumble through the closed window on the far corner of the room prior to my bedroom again FLASHING with this same grid pattern of pulsing light, again two times, but in a slightly different location of my room. This time I additionally noticed three peculiar elements: 1) the air briefly "sizzled," 2) the pattern of the grid was aesthetically fashioned, as though I was looking at a holographic projection of an ancient temple, & 3) this light wasn't exactly light. Within the span of those second two pulses, the "light" appeared to slide & gather against the wall ABOVE the window through which the ball of light came tumbling through. It was almost as if this brightness was more of a substance than a light. I then entered something of an altered state of consciousness (markedly different from the initial deja vu feeling), although this too was very brief. I can't exactly pinpoint the sensation, but there was a certain heaviness, like gravity got a little thicker for that moment, & my ears slightly popped, as though I was surfacing from deep water. After the moment passed, it felt like all the air came flooding back into my room & I was left with this highly uncanny feeling & a deep silence. I couldn't explain what happened & I didn't know how to feel about it. I am certain I did not experience a seizure or any sort of otherwise momentary mental health break. 3 — That same night I had a dream, or what I perceived to be a dream, that was also particularly unusual. I saw multiple UFO crafts outside my same bedside window. From high above in the night sky, I watched them trickle down in a motion that resembled falling leaves. I recall 5 crafts in total: 2 hovering & 3 falling in this tumbling, spiraling leaf pattern. They were all a slate blue grey in color, isosceles triangular in shape, with rounded grooves at the bottom of the crafts. There were pale yellow circular lights adorning their frames. Why I say I perceived this to be a dream is because I woke up looking outside the window. I was standing up with my hands gripping the windowsill & my head leaning in for a better view. As I came to a fully waking state, I seemed to shake out of this dream trance & laid back down in my bed. I checked the time on my phone & it was shortly after 3am. As I lay in bed, I replayed the falling motion of these crafts again & again in my head. It sounds strange, but I simply couldn't get the movement in which these crafts fell out of my mind's eye. Even now, those falling movements strike a deeper, more uncomfortable chord in me than the lights which flashed inside my room. To my recollection, I've never dreamed of UFOs until that night. Thank you for taking the time to read my report.
March 21, 2020 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Port Townsend, WA
Hovering over Discovery Bay Port Townsend. Bright light moved upward in the clear blue Sky and then disappeared. No dot in the sky when light was gone. No noise.
March 15, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Port Townsend, WA
Long line of lights all equal distance apart. Travelled in easterly direction. White lights, no blinking, no sound. A jet appeared to approach them from the north, flew through their path and quickly disappeared into thin air.
April 2, 2019 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Port Townsend, WA
One morning last week, I think it was April 2, I was lying awake in bed about midnight. Looking out the window at the Salish Sea, I saw 2 bright red lights in the sky. They were above and parallel to the water. The lights were a short distance apart. As I watched I saw a red beam come from between the two lights and down to the beach in front of my house. I think the red beam was a laser beam. As I watched the red beam disappeared, and the two lights faded into the distance. I have seen bright lights in the sky before but did no report them.
January 13, 2019 · 5:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Port Townsend, WA
January 13, 2019. This morning I woke about 5:00 AM. I looked out the windows and was startled to see a long, horizontal line of lights. The lights were equally spaced. I had never seen anything like that before, and sat up to get a better look. I watched the lights fo 5-6 minutes, then I turned over, and when I turned back the lights were receding into the distance staying in a straight line.
July 24, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Port Townsend, WA
I kept watching because it seems to me to be unexplainable. Going to look again this evening. I did well in astronomy at University so I know the difference between an airplane and a meteorite.