Light over Quincy, WA
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The report, as filed
Sighted object while driving on the highway. Object at first seemed like an aircraft but the light did not blink on and off and the light remained stationary. The light disappeared when I rounded a corner in the highway. I have grown up in the area and am familiar with the types of aircraft that are nearby. This light behaved in a manner that didn't make sense.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133513). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-04-06 → 2017-04-23
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February 22, 2015 · 6:14 PM · FIREBALL
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At 6:14 tonight, I was driving south on highway 281 out of Quincy, Washington. I noticed an extremely bright light plummeting toward earth at about a 30 degree angle. Whilst driving I noticed that the object was white hot, or at least it seemed with a dark area in the middle of it. It actually reminded me of the movie Empire Strikes Back when the probe droids are shot out of the Star Destroyer in the beginning of the movie. I thought for sure there would be a huge impact, but at the last second, the object leveled out so that it was horizontal to the skyline and just above the mountain range. It then seemed to glow brighter and brighter then shot off towards the SW in the direction of Mount Rainier. There was quite a few people pulled over on the side of the road I'm sure wondering if they might witness it again.
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