Sphere over Carson, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bright white ball of light
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 2012-08-03 → 2012-08-20
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August 6, 2021 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Carson, WA
8-6-2021 3pm Carson Washington [ ] Watched an object in the sky almost straight above me and slightly north of the sun. Perfectly clear sky at first, clouds started moving in and lost sight in 30 minutes. Object never moved. Looked like a round white disc, like a very tiny moon. Managed to get it on cellphone video also.
May 15, 2021 · 10:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Carson, WA
At approximately 10:35 PM, my female companion noticed a bar of light moving across the sky behind the treetops of a nearby mountain. The first words uttered about the object were, "Is that a train?". Moments later the bar of light moved out of the wooded treetops and into the sky (it had been in the sky all along, but was merely obscured by the trees). It was a horizontal flat line of light punctuated by several brighter circular points along the line. How distant the object was was difficult to discern, but seemed to be flying lower than the planes in the night sky, and was 5-8x the size in our field of view. It moved slowly from West to East across the sky. It wasn't long before it began to go from completely horizontal to being at a 45-60 degree angle, without changing its trajectory or movement pattern. It was at some point during this transition that I took the photo, wherein you can see the object at around 30 degrees from its horizontal pos! ition. The camera I used was on a new Samsung phone, which has a low light mode that leaves the shutter open for 3 seconds. The photo appears to show a dark outline, possibly illuminated by similar lights on the other side of the craft.
January 16, 2020 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Carson, WA
We observed a continuous moving, perfectly strait, line of star/satellite sized lights moving south to north a little slower than a commercial airliner flies. They appeared out of sight behind a few trees, then traveled roughly 24 inches across the night sky, then disappeared suddenly into nothing. My girlfriend and I lost count after 40 of these lights, we estimate there were closer to 100. We were completely sober and lucid. We were driving through Gifford Pinchot National Forest looking for new snow camping sights. The lights disappeared completely when a commercial airliner got close.
April 20, 2018 · 3:18 AM · FIREBALL
Carson, WA
Early Friday, April 20th, 2018, at around 3:15 am, I woke up and few minutes later realized I had left my phone/alarm clock in my car. I stepped out my door and a couple seconds later noticed something traveling to the East of my home, at first I thought it was a shooting star traveling from N to S, but it turned blue and grew into large blue mass with huge bright blue flames trailing it. I stood there watching as it descended and slowed waiting to hear the “boom” from it landing in the Cascade Mountains..but nothing. Not sure what it was, and have not seen any other reports of it. It was amazing to see.
May 19, 2001 · 12:01 AM · LIGHT
Carson, WA
A large bright light moved at a constant,very high rate of speed and crossed the entire sky in less than one minute.