Light over Vancouver, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
An oval light object moved into my still frame photo then immediately disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
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October 1, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
On October 1st, 2023, my partner and I arrived home at approximately 7:30pm. Upon exiting the car, I looked south from our street in the Lincoln neighborhood of West Vancouver, Washington which provides a view of downtown Portland, specifically the I-405 (aka Fremont) bridge and the Bancorp tower area. I noticed two orbs of light oddly lined up and stationary. They seemed to be somewhat flickering between white/warm white and red. I thought it was odd and pointed it out to my partner. We unloaded the car then looked closer since they were still there. I took a short video and a photo then proceeded inside to make dinner. I had all but forgotten about the orbs of light while in the kitchen for an hour, I then went into the living room which has a window that faces south. I look and am surprised to see a third light orb has appeared, lined up with the original two, this is at 8:30pm. They were all still stationery and flashing between white and red, out of sync with one another. We observe them for about 10 minutes while trying to explain what they could be, we were observing domestic flights flying lower than the orbs. We started watching a movie, occasionally pausing, and getting up to look out the window, they were still there for another 30 minutes, then began seeming to disappear and reappear suddenly. It was a clear night and often only one of the three would disappear. Eventually around 10:30pm they all disappeared and did not reappear from our perspective. I posted photos to the neighborhood app Nextdoor and someone replied with a video much clearer than the ones I got of the same three orbs in the sky, the male and female heard in the video were also confused as to what they could be. Background on us: My partner (29yo M) has a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, and I (29yo F) have a bachelor’s degree and am currently in medical school. I do not know the background of the male and female who replied with a video of the 3 light orbs to my Nextdoor post.
August 7, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Vancouver, WA
While walking my dog I looked southward down the street and saw, at an altitude of roughly 8-10,000 feet, a large green colored barrel shaped light fall at a incredible speed. It was much faster than terminal velocity and from my position in the Northern most part of Vancouver Washington, it appeared as if the object was at least as far south as Portland Oregon. I would guess that the object was at least same size as a Boeing 747 given it's relative size to it probable distance from myself.
July 30, 2023 · 12:08 AM · CHANGING
Vancouver, WA
Lights irradically appearing&varying intensity from not there@all-BIGGER&BRIGHTER than even CLOSE jumbo jets,Saw them go from 2 BRIIGHTTT WHITE LIGHTS, (BIGGER AND BRIGHTER THAN ANY/ALL-STARS/THINGS in the sky, about 2 fingers extended at arms length apart and slightly uneven most of the time. But have seen up to 4 lights total, ALL ALWAYS appearing RIGHT AT THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE RIDGELINE of Gifford Pincho forest LOOKING DIRECTLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 500. Its LITERALLY GOING ON RIGHT NOW! Last night they started around 11pm, and stayed clearly visible til 1am, then it would be active for about 20min intervals. It is NOT* A FLEETING RARE GLIMPSE OF AN EVENT! I'm 100% sure if u just sat outside for a half hour, THIS WILL BLATANTLY DEMAND UR ATTENTION!! I've had to get both my folks up around midnight, who NEITHER BELIEVE or even CARE about these kinds of things.. UNTIL they walked outside! And they couldn't even register what they were CLEARLY SEEING. Then the following morning/afternoon I felt like I HAD to tell my neighbors, if nothing else, ATLEAST to explain why they kept seeing me standing on top of my car with BINOCULARS the past few nights til the wee hours of the morning, staring in directions of nothing but dense forest farther than you can see. I live just this side of the last main street at the edge of the Suburbs-Rural farmland. Just across the street is nothing but un/under developed farm land. There are multiple stores, gas stations, restaurants ect. up&down the (N-S) street, 162nd. But NOTHING on the east side of it. So theres as little of light pollution as possible. I'm also just a few miles away from the PDX, where I've lived by the last 30yrs. So I've submitted all the flight paths and what all the aircrafts look like to memory. I'm 35ish, disabled night owl with no kids, no wife/gf, noone to distract me or requiring my attention except a doggo. I'm also a STRONG BELIEVER and ACTIVE SEEKER* of proof.. Point is, theres NOONE ELSE* more tailored to be more consistent, persistent, AVAILABLE and Active and therefore likely to see anomalies in the sky than me! I swear on EVERYTHING every word I've written here are 1000% TRUTHFUL ACCURATE AND HONEST! I read probably 75 sighting reports, n I'd say maybe half of them kinda seemed like bogus. Either because they sounded absolutely outlandish and didn't exude believability/honesty. Or because they say something INCREDIBLE! But have no details or specific details. Thats why I've LITERALLY BEEN WRITING THIS for an HOUR AND A HALF because thou III may know I'm telling the truth, I feel kinda obligated to portray the sincerity so hopefully people will go out and WITNESS this stuff for themselves so we can start to uncover the explanation of these things. I DO have my own personal hypothesis about what may be going on, but after scrolling up and seeing that this is ALREADYY the LONGEST, ABUNDANTLY DETAILED report this site has ever had, I'll spare you the rest of the novel.. THIS REPORT IS SOO LONG because its ABSOLUTELY TRUE! And I KNOW that if you live anywhere from probably Oregon City, OR-ish, to about probably Olympia, WA. Virtually any where in the valley of the i-5/i-205 corridor where you can see the tallest Gifford Pincho Forest Ridgeline. And I haven't traveled to Idaho, but theres nothing to impede you line of sight as far as I know from the i-5 corridor, and even all the way to the coast, to across the forest, (from coastline to about the Washington/Idaho border.) So theres *ALOTTT OF PEOPLE* that could potentially witness this if they just WALKED OUTSIDE and WEREN'T staring EXCLUSIVELY DOWN at their phone! What I can say FORRR SUREEE!! Is that this has been SOO-THE BIGGEST AFFIRMATION and REASSURING LIFE EVENT that its ABUNDANTLY RENEWED and CONFIRMED my drive/desire to get up when I may no necessarily WAAANT TO go outside and stare outside for hours. But this is so FANTASTICALLY UNEXPLAINABLE and IRRADICALLY INCONSISTENT and ANOMALOUS, It just COULDN'T be a man made device/formation ect. No matter how FAR AND LOOSE I streeetch my imagination, theres STILL-ZERO PLAUSIBLE logical explanations! So if you're ANYWHERE over here in the i_5 corridor area from Canada to California, look east towards paralleling highway 500 and give it just 15-30min(if its not ALREADY active) and I'll bet you'll be in for a MAAAJORRR STUMPER! I started writing this report at midnight, and its now 3am exactly, and of the 5x's I checked, every half hour, 3 of them it was ACTIVELY going on when I walked outside. I didn't have to wait. So PLEASE SOMEONE AT THE VERY LEAST TAKE A PEAK OUT THERE WHEN 7 CAN between 11pm-3am and PLEASE give me your opinion on WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON! Happened the nights of 8-2, 8-4, and 8-5-23. Saw something similar, but only lasted 10 or 15sec on 5-20-2023 at exactly 11:45pm, and PROBABLY a bunch times since then but I've been having intermittent medical issues that've kept my majorly bedridden the last 2-3mo. So itss VERYYY LIKELY been occurring the past cple mo. based on the consistency of the last week of which I first saw it. I can't explain whats going on exactly, but what I CAN SAY as previously mentioned, its SO AMAZINGLY UNEXPLAINABLE that tho I have no explanation for it, I KNOW I'D OF BEEN INCREDIBLY REMISSED if I hadn't witnessed it at all. And BTW I'm SURE anyone reading this is screaming at me thru the screen, "IF IT WAS SOO CLEARLY OBVIOUS AND LASTED FOR HOURS, WHERE ARE THE PICS!?!" But I only currently own an older-free govt. Cell phone which I haven't used for 2yrs., "Since cellphones are obviously *NOT* GOOD for CANCER, Of which I have stage 4 hogdkins lymphoma for 1, and for 2, Like i said its a CRAPPY, Probably 8yr. Old model anyway and the camera is virtually USELESS. Besides that I have a shotty tablet with an EQUALLY as useless camera. So I TRIED! But I need to go get some type of camera ASAP while this CRAZY PHENOMENON is actively present. But I've written SO MUCH ALREADY, I HIGHLY DOUBT ANYONE is still reading. But ALL THE INFO & EVERY DETAIL I KNOW are ALL RIGHT THERE for you to go and see this for yourself! PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHATS GOING ON HERE!! You can contact me directly at my secondary email, (since my primary one has my full name I'm using my OLD ONE here for this), at "Luckymistake69@yahoo.com" BE SAFE, LOOM UP, AND SORRY FOR THE NOVEL! But it DOES SAY to include AS MANY DETAILS I can! "Huge apology to the person/analyst/case worker responsible for reviewing my report.. HOPE YOU LIKE TO READ!"
July 11, 2023 · 9:15 AM · CYLINDER
Vancouver, WA
July 11, 2023: 9:15 am -9:30 am; I was at my home, in my backyard. Looking out toward the west: I spotted a great white egret bird flying and was amazed at how high it could fly. Then, I saw an unusual floating shining cylinder shape (I used my bird watching binoculars... it isn't that powerful but I can tell it is a cylinder shape, standing upright and has reflection's "wings.") It is much farther up above the marine low clouds that have been broken up since this morning. Sometimes it stays still and then moves away. It moved near the moon and floated southward then it stayed there for a while, then it moved more north until I lost vision because of clouds and then sunshine. I was trying to find it again by looking northeast where I last saw the cylinder object. A little later, 6 military jet planes, flew in rows from west to east (northern side of me.) I think it was F-15s. That was at 9:50 am. As of 10:00 am, I still do not find the shining cylinder and more fluffy light clouds are appearing to block my viewing. Photos taken with my iPhone 11. Not the best with the zoom. I took a picture when it was shining the most. My gut tells me that it was some kind of spy drone.
June 19, 2023 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
I saw these two orbs floating and seemingly moving in coordination. Eventually one began moving at a different trajectory. They just didn’t look like anything I’d ever seen before. I have a video that shows them pretty well if you want it
April 10, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
It was my during my graduation of high school at the WSU Vancouver campus. My friend and I were sitting in the grass celebrating graduation. After a while of being there that night, we had noticed 3 stationary colorful lights towards the east side of the campus. After noticing them for about 15 minutes, the farthest light to the east disappeared at incredible speeds to the south. After about another 5 minutes the middle light did the same thing. About another 5-10 minutes had gone by and the last light had followed the other’s direction. I am now 25 years old and still cannot get what I saw out of my head. I have never been able to figure out where to send this information to nor who I could trust to tell. It was the most incredible phenomenon I have ever seen.