Sphere over Cougar, WA

The report, as filed

work partner and I was on Pacific corp property building roads for them. we start work in the early mornings at 5 am. about 6:30, partner said, hey I keep seeing lights on the mountain, meaning Mt. Saint Helens. It is a few miles across the way, and we would see these flashes of lights in different spot on the mountains south side. you had to keep from blinking your eyes or you would miss it, cause they were very fast and very bright lights, almost white lights. I got my phone out and took three pictures of it zoomed to the highest level it had on a s7 Samson phone, one out of three pictures caught the fast light. and zoom that picture you can see top to the light is a black orb. we think that the other pictures I took and missed the light have black orbs in it too. did notice that the lights flashed in different places on the mountain at different times. seems like you had to wait a few minutes for the next light to flash and sometimes they wou!d flash several times same spot.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136735). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.