Light over Oysterville, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I had just gotten home and it was a very clear night. There are no streetlights here and so the stars are quite clear. I looked up at the sky and saw a (silent) ball of light traveling steadily from West to East. (Coming from near the Pacific Ocean and heading towards Willapa Bay.) It had no colored lights like a plane. It had no flashing lights. It was just a ball of white light. When it was over Willapa Bay, I witnessed the light of the object turn completely dim until it faded out from white, to an orange glow to nothing. That was all that I saw basically. It appeared large and to be flying relatively low in the night sky. I took some video of the object on my iPhone, but it came out shakey and blurry. Basically nothing compared to what I saw.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129165). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-08-08 → 2016-08-25