Triangle over University Place, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Slow moving, triangle shaped craft, with several redish lights and silent
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 2008-11-15 → 2008-12-02
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October 12, 2019 · 8:19 PM · EGG
University Place, WA
MULTIPLE UFO SIGHTING October 12, 2019 20:19 HOURS UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASHINGTON This evening while taking out the trash I and my wife observed numerous objects, all shaped the same, low in the Eastern sky traveling slowly from North to South with slowly pulsating white lights and a reddish glow around the perimeter. As our house is situated on a Western downhill slope facing the Puget Sound the objects seemed to rise into view from the North and proceed in a relatively quick manner to the South. The objects made no sound that could be discerned from our location. As the objects proceeded South, they would eventually dim and disappear. It was a quiet evening with clear skies with a high ceiling. Where we live is near Joint Base Lewis McChord and we are very familiar with the various aircraft that fly in the area skies and the sounds associated with the aircraft used by the base. These objects were not rotary or fixed wing aircraft using the regular flight paths as when they do there IS a discernable sound that can be heard for many miles. If the objects were a considerable distance away then their transit from North to South was pretty rapid and their disappearance was as though they went into a cloud bank however, after discussing the disappearance with my wife, we both agreed that they faded and blinked out. This event lasted for about 10-12 minutes and consisted of approximately 25, to as high as 30 objects. I took two still photographs and nearly three minutes of video of the event. I thought that I had captured more of the event unfortunately, when I switched from camera to video, I neglected to start the recording. I am a retired Firefighter/Paramedic and very used to seeing unusual things, events or situations and accurately documenting my observations. This is a first for my wife and me. We hope that this was not some kind of hoax perpetrated in celebration of Halloween resulting in a colossal waste of time and resources.
October 24, 2018 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
University Place, WA
Preface: I am a former private pilot, so I am very familiar with aircraft, civilian and military. I was walking my dog through a field next to a local church on Christmas Eve evening while the church was letting out. I estimate the cloud base that evening was approx. 1000-1500ft AGL with scattered clouds. I saw an object approaching me from the NW (Narrows Bridge area here). Object was spherical in shape and emitted a brilliant, extremely coherent orange glow. I could see no other projections, wings, navigation lights, etc. Being so bright it was hard to estimate its size, but my best guess is between 1-4 meters in diameter. The object made zero noise. As it approached my direction it just skimmed the bottom of the cloud layers, moving through cloud material and lighting it up with the same orange color it was emitting. It sped up and slowed down erratically and quickly, moving very much as a living creature would as apposed to human aircraft or drone would. There was very little wind that night, so I doubt it was any type of lighter than air object. I estimate it varied in speed from 40-100mph for the entirety of my sighting. It never changed altitude. (~1000-1500ft) As the object got closer it did a gradual turn to the south and moved parallel to my location. It flickered as it moved. When it was moving slower the flicker rate was slower, as it sped up it flickered faster, and at a certain point it flickered so fast as to smooth out and appear as a steady light. Oddly, my dog actually looked up at it and barked at it. He really never barks or even notices aircraft for that matter. It was quite strange. I always carry a military grade 1000 lumen flashlight with me when I walk the dog at night, so as it went by I shined my light at its direction at full power, then switched it to strobe mode to see if I could 'get its attention' – it didn't seem to take notice of me or react in any way. It continued south for another 30 seconds then turned to the south-west and faded away in the distance. I found it somewhat odd no one in the nearby parking lot seemed to notice the object flying over. As far as I could tell no one was looking up at it but me. I should note, this is the second time in my life I have seen a glowing orange orb type object. The exact same type of object flew right over me in 2012. (I'm 51 years old as of this date)
March 13, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
University Place, WA
Looked up in the sky and saw a bright light through the clouds. It moved fairly quickly across about 1/6th of the sky. I had assumed it was only a satellite until it stopped. After about 15 seconds it changed directions at a sharp 90° angle went on for about 30 seconds to a minute and changed directions again, this time back towards the way it came for about another minute or 2. It stopped there and didn't move for awhile. I went inside for about 20 minutes and just went back out. It's gone now. Current time 22:30. Maybe somebody else saw this.
October 27, 2017 · 6:10 AM · LIGHT
University Place, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2017 · 5:42 PM · DIAMOND
University Place, WA
Was in my backyard talking on my cell phone with a friend, when I noticed a diamond shaped object above my neighbor's house. The object was silver, shiny reflecting light, had sparkling blinking white lights and was tumbling end over end as it flew over my backyard. Although the object was silver when it flew, it also seemed to change to a darker silver. There was no sound associated with this object. Object was flying from the SW to the NE in a perfect straight line. I watched it fly off into the distance. I watched it for approximately 7 minutes from start to finish. I live in one of the flight paths for SeaTac Airport and there were jets flying North to South while this object was flying by. The sky was clear blue with a few clouds in the distance. I did take pictures but the object showed as only a dot on my phone. You can contact me if you wish.
February 21, 2017 · 6:15 AM
University Place, WA
An extremely large rod shape, with bright white, with lightest bluish light mixed in, I counted to 2 and it was gone the size looked to me as the size and shape of a street road (one side of a street road) that is how large it looked to me the light was there and gone. I really did not have time to be worried or scared but I could not forget the shape and thought what on earth could have that kind of light, I did not see a craft large enough to hold this light! just the light it self! nothing really came to mind at the time yet I could not stop thinking about it and started looking on site to see if any one else had seen this light and found this web site on reporting, sightings such as these.. I keep G-d close to me and I thought its was best to report what I do not understand ! In my opinoin when we do not understand because it is not known to us this can make us afraid. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD