Egg over Skykomish, WA
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The report, as filed
I arrived at my gate at the driveway just about 8pm Friday the 11th of March, 2016. As I unhooked the chain I was drawn to look up towards a bright moon. It had been somewhat cloudy and I had not noticed any moon up until now. When I looked up to the light I saw a very bright, flaming blue egg, travel from east to west very quickly and disappear from sight behind the hills behind my cabin. This was to the south of where I stood, at about 55* angle looking up. I have the impression that it had traveled from the south and turned west, but I did not see it actually turn or change direction. I did see it travel, and it was quiet, fast, had no trailing tail of smoke or light, and was like it was on fire in a colour similar to natural gas (without any yellow or white) when used on a cooking stove. I had seen falling stars, planes , jets, helicopters, lasers, fireworks, this was nothing like them. I was once in a place and two of us heard a crackling and looked up to see debris coming thru the atmosphere, this egg was nothing at all like that. I have seen lightning appear from the sky and seen it shoot from the ground, this flaming egg was similar in colour, but not in line of travel. I have never seen anything like this. I am an intelligent normal person, was not under the influence of alcohol or anything disruptive. This sighting bothers me because it is a ufo for me and I have no explanation. I saw this from the town "site" of Miller River Washington, west of Skykomish. I believe it traveled west much closer to Mt Cleveland than Dorothy Lake, perhaps towards Coney Basin. Was pretty hard to tell, this happened very fast, none of my neighbors were home to ask about it either. I immediately called a friend that lives a few miles east of me and they were in Monroe and saw nothing. As of this time no one has said they also saw something. There are very few people that live in my area exactly, FYI. but I will keep asking around. I also texted my son, hoping he would check online for any s! ightings, none found so far. It did not have the trajectory of falling from the sky at all, but was descending and I had a thought that they may have been heading for a crash.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #126362). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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