As reported

Other over Burlington, WA

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UFO makes low pass over western Washington observer.

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January 1, 2018 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT

Burlington, WA

4 Bright Orange Lights in the sky few miles out formation in a group moving and then fading out as if traveling away from me....Going to work and at 2:54am on new years day morning, i had just left the house and saw 4 bright orange lights what looked to be about 40 degrees 5 miles away in the very clear sky. I am 44yrs old, amateur astronomer for decades-own an 8" and 15" reflector telescope that i ground, polished, figured and built myself i share this info to give me some sort of credibility in my sky observation ability's. the bight orange lights were silent (jet sound/helicopter) lights were hovering toward another till one by one they diminished in size as if they were traveling away from me. flares/fireworks out of the question. this was truly my first experience with ufos. my first thoughts were flares but ruled that out fairly quickly after the motions were being controlled. well that's all i got. thank you.

June 20, 2016 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE

Burlington, WA

On Monday, 06/20/16, around 9:35pm, my wife and I were heading eastbound on Highway 20 (Memorial Highway), coming from Oak Harbor, and crossing over the overpass near the Swinomish Casino. As we rounded the curve before coming to the overpass that leads into the Skagit Valley and flat-lands, I noticed a bright,white, light in the sky over the foothills to the east and slightly south of Burlington and Mount Vernon Washington. I was just getting ready to say to my wife, “What do you think that is?”, when she asked me the exact same thing. To the naked eye, the lights looked like 3-4 round, brightly lit orbs that were somehow connected together or touching, moving very slowly, slightly southeast. The lights just had a very floaty feel to them – best way I can explain it. The light on the right side appeared to separate and move away for a couple of seconds, then rejoined the group. The entire group faded out briefly, then reappeared again. There were other cars on the road with us and you could tell they were seeing this, too. A couple of cars pulled over to the right shoulder and stopped. I told my wife to grab her phone and take some pictures. We both have new iPhone 6SE’s. She took six pictures as I was driving. She doesn’t know how to do much beyond voice and text on her phone, so she didn’t think to use the video camera. The pictures are pretty blurry from car movement and her trying to use the camera portion of the phone. We did get the lights, though it may not be of much use. Included are the photos just as they are from the phone. This was the night of the solstice moon, but this was not the moon we were seeing.

June 19, 2016 · 5:05 PM · OTHER

Burlington, WA

Director@ I was at Costco store in Burlington, WA, by the gas pumps, just parked my car. I was checking out my camera on my Samsung Note 4 and I was going to drop the phone and when I went to save it, I accidentally pressed the picture shooter and the camera began taking continuous shots, multiple shots per second. When I was done shopping, and arrived home, I started looking at the photos and realized that one had what looked like it had a funnel that appeared in the sky (which now I think is a portal) and/or sonic boom; the next photo shows the funnel reduced to a round pathway and an orb shooting through. The following photo shows the orb travelling, as well as the following photo. Then it looks like a ring develops around the orb. Finally the orb continues on and disappears. At first I thought it was a cloud (the first photo), but as I zoomed in to the far right, it was obviously a formation of some sort. I knew what the object was because I have read and seen photos of it. I also know that many think that orbs are just weather balloons or satellites. I think that these photos tell a different story. The object looks like it came through a portal that opened up and immediate closed as the object shot through and began to travel. These photos were taken slightly over a second as it was a rapid photo shoot. These were captured by accident. I am not convinced that it is a weather balloon. I would like to know what it really is. The skies were clear and it was a warm day. We have looked at all the photos provided. The objects are lens flares. PD

April 14, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION