Rectangle over Brush Prairie, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I witnessed this object looking west at 11:00 p.m. it hovered there as I watched for about 10 minutes. As I watched the object it had red, blue, green, yellow but mostly white lights flashing with no pattern but consistently flashing in the night sky. I would estimate the object to be approximately ½ mile away. It hovered a couple hundred feet above the trees. We live in a highly wooded area, lots of trees. I watch it and went inside my home after about 10 minutes. It was still hovering when I went inside my home. The size of the object I cannot be sure of but it was rectangular shaped and was big enough to see all the different colors flashing. I have seen this object before in the night sky a few other times always in the west sky in the last 2 years that I have lived in Brush Prairie, Washington, but never have reported it until now. This object was closer than it has ever been to our home. It was not an airplane, helicopter, satellite or meteor. I like to go out in the evening and look at the constellations and because we are 25 minutes away from Vancouver, Wa. It is very dark and you can really see the stars. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114717). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-18 → 2014-11-04
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