Triangle over Maple Valley, WA
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Triangle shaped ufo in maple valey almost crashes
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2009-02-02 → 2009-02-19
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August 10, 2022 · 10:29 PM · SPHERE
Maple Valley, WA
A light in the sky in an area outside of regular flight paths hovered and made very fast darts from spot to spot. It maneuvered faster than a plane or helicopter. It did not have the usual twinkling blue or red lights usually seen with planes or helicopters. It stayed in place with very small dart movements for at least 45 minutes on two separate nights, each night in the same place in the sky.
April 25, 2020 · 8:27 PM · CYLINDER
Maple Valley, WA
On April 25th, 2020, I was on my porch facing west admiring the sunset at 8:27pm. I noticed approximately 45 degrees above the Olympics and perhaps about 1 mile or so away (from my vantage point) a flashing light. The light was white and flashed every second with a 2 flash burst approximately every 5 seconds or so. At first I just assumed it was a civilian aircraft headed in my direction but it was stationary. I then assumed it was a helicopter. But the light didn't seem to match any civilian navigation lighting pattern I was familiar with. So I went inside and grabbed my binoculars. With the binoculars I could just vaguely make out a cylindrical black object. No tail or wing structure that I could discern. After a couple of minutes a civilian airplane came into view and when it did, this object started moving in a fairly quick pace to the North, and then switched course and started moving to the south. It was still plainly in view this entire time. At around 8:33pm this object suddenly moved very rapidly downward or at least out of my view and below the tree line where I lost all visual contact. The flashing white light was no longer there, simply a small red light as it made its way out of view. I am a huge aviation buff and can recognize numerous commercial and civil aircraft. This was none of those. This was a true UFO. It was Unidentified, Flying and some sort of physical Object. It's possible (I cannot rule it out) it was a drone but I don't get that feeling. It seemed to be larger than a drone.
February 21, 2020 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Maple Valley, WA
Looking Northeast about 2:00am in the clear nightsky I noticed a stream of stars that was a strange formation in a vertical arrangement which caught my attention. I looked closely and noticed they were actually moving in a vertical formation descending from above and down to the eastern horizon. They were spaced apart but all moving at the same speed and equally distanced apart. There may have been a total of about 20 and as they descended downward from above another seemed to drop from the sky above. This occurred within 5 to 10 minutes and after approximately 20 had repeated the descent there were no more. None of these lights left a trail like a meteor but the incident reminded me more of the Phoenix lights reported a few years ago.
February 28, 2019 · 5:59 AM · LIGHT
Maple Valley, WA
I am a 51 year old - sober man - who has never seen a “ UFO “ before. I went outside to bring my dog in before leaving for work. It was cold, mid to high 20’s. It was still dark. The sky was crystal clear. I do not wear / need corrective lenses. I live in a quiet, dark, rural area. A light in the sky (about 36 degrees up) caught my attention as I was facing straight north. It was moving too fast, too low, and was too bright to be something (like a plane) that I could look away from. My first view picked it up at approx. Maple Valley HWY 169 & Cedar Grove Road intersection (1.04 miles north of me). It traveled from Cedar Grove/169 to the north side of Tiger Mountain in 8 to 10 seconds. This is about a 5 mile distance in a straight line. 5 miles travel in let’s say 9 seconds = 2000 MPH. This is why it caught my eye, and I couldn’t look away. It had no craft shape that I could decipher. It was simply a bright, round white light about the size of a quarter. It had no trail. No colored lights. It did not make a sound. It never wavered in altitude, and it appeared to travel in a straight line with the horizon until I lost visual with it. This may sound strange, but it traveled with a purpose. The best visual of the object I could give you was if you could grab a star from the sky and pull it down to about 6000 feet. That’s exactly what it looked like. I’ve emailed a drawing showing how I came to my guess on the objects altitude. I used the “Skyview” App to locate the objects approx. degree in height. I looked at an area map and set a ruler on what I believed to be the line of travel. If it had continued on its path over the North part of Tiger Mountain it would have passed very close over Fall City, WA. It then would have looked to cross directly over the city of Carnation, WA. I posted my experience on social media to see if anyone else in the area saw this object. I have had no success so far. I’m sharing this because it ! was not a plane, or a drone. It was not a satellite. It wasn’t! a meteo r, or a shooting star. I’ve seen all of those things a million times. I was just lucky yesterday morning.
June 2, 2013 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
Maple Valley, WA
A silent pulsing orange circular glowing object.
October 2, 2012 · 7:50 PM · CHEVRON
Maple Valley, WA
Two chevron-shaped objects flying in formation spotted over Maple Valley, WA.