Fireball over Longview, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fireball streaks slowly across northern sky.
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 2002-11-26 → 2002-12-13
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November 8, 2023 · 9:32 PM · CHEVRON
Longview, WA
Another party and I were outside discussing the stars. We simultaneously noticed the craft above. The craft made no noise and was traveling at a low speed in the sky. It was almost the color of the the night sky, although a few shades lighter. Said craft then traveled southwest towards downtown and blended in with the lighter pitch of the city lights. The event was approximately 45 seconds in duration at approximately 2132 hours.
August 8, 2023 · 11:07 PM · TRIANGLE
Longview, WA
I've seen them before and so I've been having my wife go out on the deck with me, and we seen 2 low flying triangle shaped objects, traveling very, very slowly for about 2-3 minutes and were out of view.
July 30, 2023 · 2:45 PM · OTHER
Longview, WA
The 2 men who first witnessed the object, said they had been watching it for about 10 minutes. When they first saw it, it was 2 blocks away, near St. John Hospital. It was floating about 50 feet in the air. It "appeared" to be a black umbrella, 4 feet wide, with a white handle. There was no wind. When it was first pointed out to me, it looked like it was 300 feet in the air, and slowly ascending. After the 3 of us watched it for 10 minutes, one suggested I film it, which is when I started taking pictures and filming. From the moment it was first spotted, it was upside down the whole time. As it "floated", it maintained a swinging motion. When I first started filming, it was maybe 1500 feet high. It probably climbed another 500 feet, and after about 25 or 30 minutes, it went into a cloud, and never came out. Friends have told me there are many pictures/videos posted of this object on face book, taken from the Walmart parking lot, about a half mile from where I was. That was the general direction the object was headed. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
June 24, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Longview, WA
Blue Light was flying straight from northerly to easterly direction nearly colliding with another object that was a blinking white light traveling in the opposite direction then the blue light object turned into a white light and continued on toward Columbia river. NO SOUND
June 14, 2023 · 11:12 PM · UNKNOWN
Longview, WA
About a year ago or there about, I started seeing these lights in the sky, all of red, green and blue color and I seen as many as 9 at a time as far as down to 2 at a time, and not all in the same part of the sky. I've seen many, many satellites and that is not what they were, there is not that many in the sky at the same time and everyone knows what stars look like, and it's not stars. I've watched them for over a year now, they are not airplanes, when they move they are to slow for planes, and they don't always move. Well a few nights ago about the beginning of the week, I used a green laser light and shined toward them, and just after I did, I seen one appear in the middle of the sky out of nowhere, I kind of laughed it off, but did think it was odd, so the next night I tried it again, twice and after each flash I saw more, so Thursday night I did it again, and I only saw one, well when I came back in the house I was walking from the kitchen to the living room, and all of a sudden I heard this really loud, loud whirling sound and I thought what the hell is that and I ran back out to the deck and not to far above the tree tops, I seen one of the objects shoot through the sky, I still wasn't able to see the shape of it, but right behind it was a helicopter, and I know for a fact whatever it was the copter was chasing it. So finally last night I had my wife go out with me, and I shined the laser at one again, and one came through the sky, and I did it again and 3 more, one behind the other came through the sky, and we waited just for a minute and without me even doing the laser again 2 more came, we both agreed too slow for planes, no helicopter sounds, and some were making a up and down rollercoaster motion. All I can do is call them UFO's because we know they are not planes, not helicopters. Thank You
June 14, 2023 · 10:41 PM · CIGAR
Longview, WA
At approximately 2241, on the night of June the 14th, 2023, my significant-other and I stepped out to our front porch to smoke and within the span of just one or two minutes, heard and witnessed the speedy passage of a massive craft. We thought at first, due to the sheer apparent distance between guide-lights, that it was two helicopters flying with something suspended betwixt them. However I believe the lights we saw were too coordinated in their movements to indicate anything but a single craft. Visibility was however, low due to the streetlamp opposite the house. I could just vaguely make out the outline of the craft. As it appeared to me it seemed very like a submarine or zeppelin. I'd wager it was prop driven, given the sound. It approached from the South, approximately heading Northward, with a spotlight beaming down from the fore. Given the search-light I was hesitant to try to take a photograph, let alone the poor visibility and my potato-phone.