Changing over Redmond, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object moved like a pendulum in mid-air moving upwards, stopping in mid-swing-in front of the clouds.
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 2005-04-10 → 2005-04-27
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March 14, 2021 · 9:12 PM · SPHERE
Redmond, WA
This is a 2nd hand report, relayed from an individual not familiar with NUFORC. The witness was solicited for further data concerning the sighting but did not respond. A cell phone video is being forwarded by email. The video was published on a neighborhood website (nextdoor.com)
April 30, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Redmond, WA
Last night (April 30) my wife and I observed a peculiar occurrence in the sky. We live a few miles east of Redmond WA. We decided to spend some time in our hot tub, and about 9:20 PM my wife went in first. When I joined her about 5 minutes later, she said she was seeing something strange in the sky, namely a series of moving lights. These were points of light about the brightness of a 3- or 4-magnitude star, moving one after another in a straight line from northwest to southeast, evenly spaced, moving at the same speed, and apparently quite high up. From our position the line or track initially led directly toward the star Arcturus, but slowly shifted westward a few degrees. From our deck we could see the track for about a quarter of the sky, from the eave of our house directly overhead to some trees on the edge of our property. An individual light took 30 or 40 seconds to traverse this interval, and a new one would appear before the previous one had disappeared. My wife said she had already seen perhaps a dozen when I came out, and together we witnessed maybe 20 or 30 more. After about 15 minutes, clouds moved in, lit by the quarter moon high in the west, and obscured our vision. We frequently see aircraft while in the hot tub, most commonly flying east to west, at no great height, and showing some typical combination of white, red and green lights. But the lights we saw last night were nothing like this. (In fact, we only saw one other aircraft during this interval, flying up from the south at moderate altitude and passing to the southeast. Even it was a bit atypical, having only two bright yellowish-white lights like car headlights.) My first thought was that we were seeing some military transport, but the sheer number of lights seemingly makes this explanation unlikely. In summary, I have been watching the sky my whole life, and have never witnessed anything like this event. My wife was a bit unnerved. Any insight you can ! provide would be most appreciated.
November 30, 2019 · 2:23 AM · CIRCLE
Redmond, WA
Woke up looking out window with open blinds in Redmond toward S/SW direction appx 0220. Very bright (appx 4x more than Venus) light emitting six to eleven rays (disputed between partners). Object moving up and down despite head of first viewer lying stationary on mattress. Woke up wife/ partner. Asked her to stand up and report what was seen outsode. Both viewed something never seen before. Both sober. Both viewed rays from object moving as if defying law pf gravity. Only white in color. Only watched for appx 30 minutes. Recorded with Iphone SE that fails to even observe branches in nearby trees at night. While another object flew closer rathet than further toward the initial object, its trajectory would not lead to a convergence. The latter (man made) object also appeared as closer to the viewers. Called friend to view as 3rd witness and left him a voicemail. He did not reply/listen to voicemail until next day. Recorded anyway.
October 19, 2019 · 10:15 PM · CHEVRON
Redmond, WA
Looking up in the sky we saw a shape silently moving north through the sky below the cloud cover. It seemed straight but there appeared to be a shallow angle to it at times so I would characterize it as a shallow chevron. It was a uniform color and was dimly colored as though it was reflecting some moonlight, perhaps a mid to dark gray color. It was utterly silent and moving at a consistent bearing and speed. There were no lights on it whatsoever. It was very difficult to spot and we lost track of it after a bit over a minute.
September 19, 2019 · 2:10 PM · OTHER
Redmond, WA
At around 1:45 me and my friend left work to go to his house and grab some things. after about 22 minutes we arrived at the park and were parking to go smoke and chill as usual. We got out the car and started walking to the benches by the Tennis court. My friend turned and faced me looking around the SW direction. I was already facing North West moving my head looking around because we just arrived. Then without expecting it a light I was seeing and made no second thought about moved out of sight behind trees to my right in 2.5 seconds. When I first saw it moving I thought it was a shooting star but I soon realized it was below cloud cover, going straight, and had no tail made up of light. There was no sound. The light was a white orb shaped object. The exact direction I was looking toward in the moment was 311 degrees North West. From my vantage point the object started from a little to the left from where i was looking, but I remember seeing the light in a! stand still (I had no thoughts at the time about the light) I told my friend about it but he visibly didn't seem to believe me. I am no expert on speeds or elevations or any of the sort but the object at least to me looked like it was going past the sound barrier at 1500 feet (The fastest I've seen anything move). The orb was white and from where I was looking looked to be around 1/4 the size of the moon if you were looking at the moon from earth. I checked for 30 minutes after the sighting and nothing re-appeared. One thing to note is I have been experiencing strange coincidences lately that don't really make sense and should have never happened.
July 4, 2018 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Redmond, WA
A light appeared and was moving in an infinity sign moving very fast and right above us. The light was coming from above the clouds. After about 20 rotations, it disappeared and then came back, but was still then disappeared