Light over Coulee Dam, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I go out on our West-facing deck. She notices a light moving in the dark nighttime sky and points it out to me. It was changing colors, red, green and headlight yellowish. The movement of the light was about three fingers at arm's length, in all directions. Very hard to guess distance, but i would say >5 miles. We watched for about an hour and went in the house. Will watch again on the following night for a possible repeat performance.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135860). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-19 → 2017-09-05