Oval over Demming, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My son and I were outside looking at the stars at our cabin near Mt. Baker in WA. The sky was very dark and we could see a patch of the sky through the trees. We were setting up a small telescope and talking when the super bright light appeared. It was right next to what we thought was a planet (as it was very bright). I did not notice the moving light before but now it was brighter than the planet. It was moving slowly in a circular motion and definitely was not an airplane. It was going back and forth and then started to fade and went in a line away from the planet and we lost it in the trees. I was still going when we lost it. We did not see it with the telescope and we could not get a picture of it, as it was too far away.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111591). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-12 → 2014-07-29