Light over Harrington, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside to walk my dogs, I had looked up and there was a light flash in the south, way up high, it was a bright light ball of some sort. This light ball moved slowly for about a minute, towards the west a bit. I shined my powerful green laser on it, it went upward, I shined my laser on it again and the light ship turned off its light source and it turned red, all within a minute, then this thing disappeared into space, after about watching for at least 2 minutes.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112958). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-11 → 2014-08-28
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May 9, 2017 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
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I was driving down highway 23 after work towards Harrington at 3:45am. I was up by Linda Colbert’s house, when I saw a yellowish ball of light in what looked to be a cloud near the grain elevators. I figured it was the moon, or sometimes the lights are on in the elevator, and it could have been those. Once I drove past the school, and up to the elevators there were no lights on, and no light up near the elevator. I looked up in the sky, and saw the same light on the outskirts of town near highway 28 towards Odessa. When I turn left on Main St in Harrington, I saw the light out over McGregor on the other side of hwy 28. I continued down the street watching it through the raining windshield. It was moving, but I couldn’t tell how fast because of the rain on the windshield. I decided to roll my window down at 5th and Main, but when I did, I could no longer find it.
February 2, 2017 · 1:35 AM · OVAL
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November 5, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
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July 5, 2014 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Harrington, WA
On Saturday evening, July 5th, 2014, at 22:05 hrs. (measured; + or – 60 seconds) (Pacific Daylight Time), I was seated in a lawn chair on a neighbor’s front yard patio in Harrington, Washington, (Lincoln County), facing generally to the southeast. Also present on the patio, at the time, were three other adults. As I gazed at the mostly cloud-covered sky (estimated 70-90 percent coverage), I suddenly became aware of a single white light, approximately the size and luminosity of Jupiter or Venus, moving across the sky from my right to left, i.e. to the northeast. No red navigation light was evident, which would have been the case, had the object been a conventional aircraft flying legally at night. Within a few seconds of first sighting the object, I opened my cell phone, and noted the time to be 22:05 hrs. (Pacific Daylight Time). I called out the time to the other three witnesses present. The light immediately caught my attention because of its quite noticeable luminosity, and because of its relatively high (angular) velocity, an estimated 2-4 degrees per second. I am quite familiar with the appearance of the International Space Station, as it orbits overhead, having witnessed it hundreds of times. The angular velocity of the light I witnessed was noticeably greater than that of the ISS. The light was moving from my right to left, moving generally to the north and east. Because of parallax, I am unable to estimate the object’s ground-track more accurately than to say it appeared to be coursing generally northeast. It was at approximately 20-30 degrees above the horizontal plane, and it appeared to be moving across the sky approximately parallel to an imaginary horizontal line. The light passed in and out of the clouds two or three times during the sighting. My distinct impression was that the light was “embedded” in the clouds, rather than beyond them (from my view), and that was the same impression that the three other witnesses had. However, my recollection is that the object did not seem to illuminate to a noticeable degree the clouds when it flew either near, or in, them, although my recollection on this point may be flawed. All four of the witnesses watched the object for approximately 8-10 seconds, commenting the whole while on how unusual and incongruous the light appeared to be. The light entered a cloud, and the four witnesses continued watching that area of the sky, expecting to see it again. However, it did not re-appear. At the time of the sighting, the witnesses were located approximately 30-40 miles to the west of both Spokane International Airport and Fairchild AFB, so they all frequently witness both commercial and military aircraft of many types, in the course of a typical day. The witnesses agreed that the object they had just witnessed was inconsistent with any type of aircraft that they are familiar with. I plan to contact the local National Weather Service office, or FAA Flight Service Station, hoping to be able to obtain the altitude of bases and tops of clouds in the area, for the time and date of the sighting. That information may allow triangulation, to establish maximum altitude, distance, and velocity of the object, as well as an estimate of its size. I will append those data to this report, as soon as they are obtained. I have held a commercial pilot’s license for almost forty years, and have held an instructor’s rating for ten of those years. I was raised in an airline family, and I lived with a U. S. Air Force family for one year. Consequently, I am quite skilled, I believe, in being able to identify most private, commercial, and military types of aircraft. My vision, recently tested by an optometrist, is correctable to 20/20, or better, and I have no color perception deficit. I had a somewhat similar sighting from approximately the same location on October 17, 2011. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS, PETER DAVENPORT, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER)) Data for the altitude of the bases of the clouds was obtained, courtesy of the National Weather Service in Airway Heights, Washington. They reported that the bases were at between 14,000 and 16,000 feet (above ground level). Using trigonomentry, assuming the object was at approximately 30 degrees angle of elevation above the horizontal plane, it was approximately 5.7 statute miles in distance from the witnesses. If it traversed an estimated 30 degrees, then it covered approximately 2.8 statute miles in 8-10 seconds… These are very approximate numbers, which depend on the accuracy of the measurements taken by the witnesses. ((END ADDENDUM))
July 5, 2014 · 12:12 AM · OVAL
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As we went back on highway 28 towards Davenport to see for ourselves; we turned off onto the beginning of Scott road just barely out of Harrington. Off to the southwest we saw a yellow light in the sky which appeared to me to be a circle at the time. It was definitely not a farm light because of its great height in reference to the hills. As we sat there staring at the light we saw, without warning, it expanded in size by a massive amount in under three seconds. We couldn't accurately tell how large it was since we had not point of reference to base it upon. The mood was frantic as everyone was trying to figure out what this possibly could have been. Could it have been a firework? No it couldn't as it was a solid color and last there for nearly twenty seconds in the sky. Was it a lunar eclipse that was momentarily obscured from cloud coverage. No; there was no eclipse that night. And then the light started to shrink very slowly. We headed onto the Odessa highway to see if w! e could get a better look, but the hills were obscuring our view on both sides. We couldn't see it at all now. We called in a night at that point and headed home. One thing I know for sure is that I will never forget the experience I had. I wasn't what you would call a skeptic on Alien vessels or other unexplained spacial phenomena. I can't tell for certain what exactly it was that saw, but I am definitely more open minded about the talk of alien craft now. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we consider him to be highly reliable. He is well known to us, as is one of the other witnesses. PD
October 3, 2013 · 9:23 PM · LIGHT
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