Sphere over Kent, WA
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Three circular red objects in triangular formation
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September 29, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Kent, WA
I live near aviation traffic, but I love that because I have been an aviation fan since I was a kid. I mention this because even though I live under the approach/departure patterns for both KBFI and KSEA and love plane spotting, but what I saw were absolutely not planes. At first I thought they were, because they were flying together and I thought that was a bit odd, but could be two Blue Angels or other fighters doing something, but it soon became apparent they weren't that either. There was absolutely no sound. It is absolutely impossible for those two fireballs to be aircraft. The color of what would have been landing lights were more orange/amber than an aircraft and as they got closer, the "aura" around them was just odd. Another characteristic was that as the flew from past me from north (or perhaps northeast, I can't remember exactly) they started dipping and diving like they were playing with each other and seemed to undulate crossing each other kind of like a double helix pattern, but then got closer and closer to each other in little small skips or bumps, but smoothly. All this happened within just a couple of minutes, half of which was spent trying to to process what I was seeing and the other half in amazement, leaving no time for a photo, so I know the attached photo is horrible because my phone lens was dirty, it was night and I was a bit nervous and trembling, but this was what I captured before the two flew off to the south. I'm also attaching a phot of the background after they left and I was more stable. Lens was still dirty though.
May 22, 2023 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Kent, WA
Approx 2:00pm my roommate got me to come outside. Looking up there were 5 black star shaped craft with 3 "arms". They were right at the cloud ceiling layer. They were very difficult to make out unless you stared with concentration. They were floating/lumbering along the cloud layer slowly. At times they appeared to disappear. We took a video and photos, but the resolution was too low to discern them in the photo/video. They were hard enough to see with the naked eye, let alone a phone camera.
April 25, 2023 · 9:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Kent, WA
This bright pale green light was seen travelling east to west while driving south (although facing west) on highway 167 in Kent, WA. The precise location was approximately 1/2 mile south of the ball glass factory, between the 84th street and Willis street exits. This bright light flew overhead for only 2 or 3 seconds. The object may have been cone or triangle shaped, but this shape may have been a short fanning trail. Both passengers in the car saw the same object at the same time. We speculate it could have been a 120mph drone because it passed us in 2 seconds while we were travelling 65mph. Observer 1 is a industrial repair technician, US born, baptist religion. Observer 2 is a nurse, filipino, baptist religion.
November 10, 2022 · 10:29 PM · LIGHT
Kent, WA
I looked outside my window and saw circular object hovering in the distance. When I zoomed in on my camera, it was bright and flickering. You can see planes flying by but this object stayed in one spot and did not move. Towards the end of the video, I end up losing it in my recording.
April 16, 2021 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Kent, WA
I was driving north on the Kent Black Diamond Rd. I had passed Jenkins Creek and there was farmland to my left. All of a sudden at around 9:50 PM PST, I saw a little white circle travelling between 60 and 120 mph up off in the left part of the sky, my left. It went down in a diagonal, the direction of the letter N, and disappeared. It was not a plane or a reflection. It was too big to be a star, and the edges of it were too well defined, very circular. Bright white like the moon, kind of. It could have been a drone, but why was it going so fast? I was able to estimate the speed of the light because I drove under highway 18 a minute later. The bright circular object was going at least as fast as those cars, maybe up to twice as fast.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Kent, WA
My neighbor and I witnessed what appeared to be a cluster of star like moving objects in the southern sky moving from east to west at a slow pace. They did not appear to have any organized shape or formation and the objects slowly changed in orientation over the few minutes we watched them. They eventually appeared to slow and disappear from view behind the neighbor’s roof-line and I believe they may have started moving south out of view from there. I checked out photos of the Starlink satellites and what we watched were definitely not those satellites. What we saw had no definite pattern or orientation and were scattered in a changing cluster of lights. The objects formed somewhat of a “J” shape from north to south and under the largest formation was a trailing cluster from east to west. There were in the same area of the sky as Jupiter moving towards the west.