Fireball over Goldendale, WA
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The report, as filed
A bright white fireball with long tail was seen heading toward the outlying areas of Goldendale, WA.
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 2012-10-31 → 2012-11-17
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October 23, 2020 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Goldendale, WA
I am 67 and my female boss is 73..on our way to work, the same road we take 6 sometimes 7 days a week.. the area where we saw this was timbered area.. homes are sprinkled around the area.. we came upon 2 bright lights approx. 1000 ft above the ground.. we were approx. 1/4 of a mile away on the road... the 2 lights were big and bright and were stationary.. they were perfectly round and approx. 100 ft. across the middle of the light.. they were approx. 200 or 300 meters. apart from each other.. both were the same distance from the ground..
April 18, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Goldendale, WA
lights were evenly spaced and totally silent. made call to neighbor who saw same sight
September 19, 2019 · 12:58 PM · FORMATION
Goldendale, WA
At 12:58 me an my friend outside talking, for a mintute than l looked to my left in the sky, then l stop talking to my friend said to her, what is that in the sky, said to her you see this 4 redlights in a 3 pattern formations moving dianglely, moving and flashing in a circlurlar motions.
January 20, 2018 · 12:09 PM · UNKNOWN
Goldendale, WA
Went outside in the front of my place to dump trash bag, check for mail then tighten the mount for my flag, because of wind gusts. After I got done putting my flag up I turned to the east and seen an partially transparent object moving oddly to the southeast. I didn't hear any noise, it looked like it was floating and I could not make out what the shape of it was. All I seen was reflections coming off of it, cloudy with the sun light blocked out of the sky. It could of been metallic with a mirror type polish over it. Object was about a mile away floating around between 1000 feet to 2000 feet above the ground. My position was northwest of it, the area that it floated over is a high School. By the time I had went in and got my binoculars and back out, it had disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 28, 2015 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Goldendale, WA
Observed three "glowing orange ball phenomena," one of which appeared only briefly, the other two kept appearing for a full hour and kept appearing, but I left after one hour of observation. Location was on a ridge between Goldendale, WA and Mt. Adams. The spheres would begin as a small point of light visible from my position of approximately ten miles away, then would slowly grow in size and luminosity over a period of about three minutes, then gradually diminish respectively until no longer visible. Spheres appeared to be a couple hundred feet off the ground. Spheres demonstrated no defining features and were perfectly spherical in shape. Though the orbs never changed position when observed, they would shift to a slightly different locations each time they would materialize. The two frequent spheres appeared in close proximity to one another each time. The orbs were very close to a 'backfire' that firefighters were lighting to fight the wildfires occurring at the time. The fires were not visible from my position. The spheres were distinct, very bright at times, and as a military trained observer, my opinion is that these objects cannot be explained by fire, aircraft, or anything else that I am aware of. It was possibly the most awesome and profound event I have observed in my life thus far and made quite an impression on me. I returned to same sight of observation for the next two nights, though time of observation of these two nights was 1 hour earlier each time, from 2230 to 2330 hours. Nothing observed on these two occasions. I contacted the Klickitat County Sheriff department later in the day of the observations and was informed that no reports were received regarding this incident.
October 8, 2014 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Goldendale, WA
October 2014, on the night of the blood moon, I decided to stay up all night to see the moon eclipse. At 3:30am, at the height of the eclipse, I woke my family up to come outside and see it. My daughter and I walked out our back door first onto our back deck with my son and husband following behind. As soon as my daughter and I reached the edge of the deck, we turned back towards our house to look at the moon which was above the house. At the ridgeline of the roof, a bright, white light appeared and flew along the entire roofline of the home. It was an orb, very bright, brilliant white, and kind of had an appearance of a 'sparkler.' The kind I used to play with on the fourth of July as a kid. It was not more than a foot above the roof, and was about the size of a cantalope. It lasted 3 seconds and my daughter and I gasped in amazement having both seen it. My husband and son had not looked up in time, having therefore missed it. We marveled at the moon and described the orb we saw for several minutes, and at that point, my husband went back inside. As the children and I walked off the deck and into the yard, we saw another orb just like the one a few minutes prior. It appeared 20 ft above us, flew for 3 seconds and fizzled out. It too looked like a sparkler and was the same size. All three of us saw this one. There was no noise with either one.