Cigar over Lakebay, WA
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Three red lights on either end of cigar-shaped craft, large; moved forward, sideways, then back without turning.
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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June 28, 2021 · 10:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Lakebay, WA
I heard the rumble of a helicopter and waited for it to pass by my house. It was a clear but dark night. I noticed it pass my house from the west traveling east towards Tacoma, it was flying at about 2 to 300 ft , I noted the lights on the helicopter and a black mass about 4 times the size of the chopper. The black mass had no lights and appeared to be a rectangular craft. Since I live in a forested area, I could only view it for 15 to 20 seconds. I am use to seeing choppers from Lewis/McCord but never have I seen one following a blackout object as tonight. If not for the helicopter, I don’t think it would have made a sound but I couldn’t be positive on that.
April 23, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakebay, WA
Tonight, 4/23/2018 at approximately 10pm I was browsing on my computer when my dogs started to bark. I opened the slider to let them outside, then noticed a strange cluster of lights in the sky, moving very slowly from northeast to southwest. It appeared to be a singular object with multiple lights in a tight round cluster. The lights were multicolored, bright blue, deep red, gold/orange/yellow and white, very vibrant and rapid twinkling with a bright intense pulse or flash of one of the red colored lights. As I watched for about 5-10 seconds, it moved slowly to the south and the tree tops began to block my view. I called for my husband to come see but when we both looked back it had moved out of sight. I have never seen an object like that before. This was about 4 times the size and brightness of the largest star I’ve seen in the night sky. I would guess its altitude to be about 2000-3000 feet, very difficult to tell. It wasn’t low to the ground like the aircraft we typically see around here and it didn’t appear to be as high as the air traffic we see from SeaTac. I don’t know what it was.
June 25, 2015 · 2:50 AM · TRIANGLE
Lakebay, WA
On June 25, I awoke at 2:50 a.m. and stared at the sky, seeing stars, with the overcast of two hours earlier having cleared. My bed headboard abuts a large window allowing me to gaze almost directly upward. It is common for me to waken about every two hours or so, as I did this night. I saw what at first I thought was a falling star, a dot of light, but it was slower than normal. After a brief arc it blinked out. Following the line of sight ahead, I was surprised to see a dark charcoal triangular shape moving along the same line and at the same speed as brief dot of light. In disbelief, I grabbed my glasses and looked again. Along the same line, I saw the same shadowy dark charcoal triangular shapes against the black sky, one after another, equidistant apart. I did not count but guess I saw six or seven in a row. At the end, there was a group of five or six in a symmetrical formation. As these objects passed, background stars were blocked from sight. There was no sound. I have no idea what to make of it. I was not dreaming. Indeed, after searching the sky for a couple more minutes, I turned on the light and with an app on my smart phone took a compass reading of the direction. A close approximation was a heading of 206 degrees (plus/minus), or south by southwest. Location and Conditions: I live in Lakebay, Washington, about 2 miles southeast of Key Center, a small community. It is a wooded setting with no outdoor lights close by. My house was dark with no lights on. I am surrounded by high fir trees, distant about 30 feet away from my bedroom window, and about 80 feet away in the direction of the objects. There is a screen on the window out of which I was looking. Considerations: Because of the initial observation of light, as a meteor, I have dismissed the thought that this could have been a flock of Canadian geese. Further, geese are noisy when they fly, constantly honking. Everything was a tad too symmetrical in any event. Had they been planes or jets, I would have been able to hear them. It was absolutely silent. And because what I saw had size and shape, not just specks, planes would have been close enough to easily hear. I cannot speculate on size, distance or speed. I have no idea what I saw. But I was awake and did see what I have described, definitely there but very dark. Again, the objects were a dark slate gray, just barely lighter than the background black night sky, covering stars as they passed by. I am divorced, 65, and live alone. Not an UFO kind of guy, I am not keen on publicity and prefer relative anonymity. Nonetheless, should you wish to contact you may, discretely.
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