Light over Mercer Island, WA
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The report, as filed
Yellowish red lights over Lake Washington 6/14/2011
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 2011-06-11 → 2011-06-28
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January 15, 2023 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Mercer Island, WA
Around 5:30 am as I was laying in bed I felt something like a presence. Upon looking directly in front of me I noticed something hovering like a cloud once I looked forward there was a large shadow that came from overhead very silent in front of my window and patio. It moved on stealth creating a strange silence and timing all lighting in the area. When I tried to see even closer it taken my my window blind completely black as where I peeked it taken off. I am a bit confused on why it choose to stop or hover near my home so low We live in a top floor unit with children. Is this something we should be concerned about
June 28, 2019 · 2:23 AM · LIGHT
Mercer Island, WA
Camera captured 2 lights in synch maybe foot apart in dark area 2am til sun rise moving around in synch but dosent look like a light since floated above camera in synch initially and moved around shut off appear elsewhere and moved around.
July 17, 2018 · 12:45 PM · LIGHT
Mercer Island, WA
At Luther Burbank park having a night swim, observed what we thought was a satellite traveling very quickly across the night sky. It suddenly stopped, moved to an almost infinity pattern and then a huge flash of light like 10x of a normal stars brightness and was gone. Not more than 30 seconds later I observed another UFO traveling West, but this was more of an erratic movement than the previous UFO. It stopped suddenly, seemed to move up and down and flashed even brighter than the previous one and was gone from the naked eye. My boyfriend and I were screaming, “What did we just see?“ over and over again. We got quite. 10 minutes later we spot ANOTHER object in the sky moving at high distance, stopped between two stars and seemed to be moving up and down, almost like a ping pong ball and then just stop. It stopped moving for 15 minutes and then would very slightly look like it was falling down and catch itself and move in the same star position as before! Very Very active over on Mercer Island this early morning. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 10, 2016 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Mercer Island, WA
I am the opening guard at my pool. I was pulling the pool cover outside when a large saucer-shaped light shot across the sky overhead, arched, then headed south after discharging orange sparks. It was so bright it lit up the sky at 4:30 am. Like a shooting star, only very close to the ground. Like 30 ft from the ground. It was super fast too. And was gone surging 2-3 seconds. It made no sound during its flight. Very spooky.
November 29, 2012 · 11:00 PM · EGG
Mercer Island, WA
Colorful object flying over Mercer Island. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius, or model airplane?? PD))
November 11, 2011 · 4:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Mercer Island, WA
I was standing on my balcony on Mercer Island, which overlooks Lake Washington and Bellevue. At the time, lighting was very golden beca