Circle over Ione, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Up camping and saw green glowing fireballs in the sky OMG
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 2007-07-23 → 2007-08-09
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November 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was standing near a south facing window in my house in Northern Pend Oreille County WA. On 13 November around 11pm I saw three very bright Lights that looked like very bright “out of focus” stars in a horizontal line each was about 6 degrees spacing along the ecliptic in the direction of SWW. I thought for a moment that I should take a photo but realized the lights would not make a good photo. They did not seem to be moving. I debated on waking my husband up and instead went to bed. I told my husband about this the next morning and he mentioned that after looking on stelerium that Orion’s belt was in that area but it was not in a horizontal line. Jupiter was visible farther to the west. On the 14th and 15th I noticed military aircraft circling the area south of our house.
July 1, 2021 · 4:54 AM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was trying to observe the elongation of Polaris by looking at the handle of the big dipper. A bright light flew overhead at high speed, silent over my location. It traveled NW (at an approximate azimuth of 35-40 degrees from true north. Possibly a meteor. A few minutes later I looked in the same general direction to try and pinpoint the track of the first object and I saw a bright flash like a star had just dimmed out.
August 5, 2018 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Ione, WA
Was viewing Jupiter thru 30 power scope on total station. I saw a bright white light about as bright as Jupiter and tracked it for a while as it headed west to east (heading was about about 90 to 110 degrees). Last seen thru scope angle was 203d 21' 54", elevation 27d 13' 11" (from my location at 48d, 46' 58.1", -117d 17' 16.5", ne of Ione WA). Object did not have any flashing navigation lights and I went outside to listen for sound and could hear nothing, no wind. It traversed my field of view about 5 degrees west and above jupiter to the hill to my south east in perhaps less than 35~45 seconds.
July 3, 2015 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Ione, WA
On the evening of July 3rd, at about 10:30 PM, I was outside, looking up at the stars, as I enjoy doing, when I noticed what I initially thought was a satellite moving across the sky. The “satellite” then changed course and began to move around irregularly. It would move in loops and swirls, staying in one general area, changing velocity occasionally. Every now and then I could see a faint shimmering in the area and would sometimes see what looked like another “satellite” moving in a similar fashion, but only for a second or two and then disappear. At one point the object turned red for 2 or 3 seconds then returned to normal. At one point I saw something flash out in my peripheral vision. It was like a shooting star/ meteor moving towards the original object, yet this “meteor” only moved at the speed of a satellite, much slower than a meteor. About 10 seconds later I saw another “meteor,” also moving towards the original object, but from a different direction. I don’t know what I saw but it looked to me like it was a craft involved in some sort of combat with other craft. I was 70 miles or more from any city of any size, the night was quiet. I do not know what it was but I can tell you what is wasn’t: an airplane, a helicopter A Satellite, Swamp Gas, A Weather Balloon, Venus. I am curious if anyone else has seen something like this.
January 18, 2011 · 10:07 PM · FIREBALL
Ione, WA
Redish-Orange object falling ne to sw in souther sky south of Sullivan Lake, Ione, Wa