Light over Spanaway, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three bright reddish pink lights in triangular formation with one little tiny white light flying from it going across the sky heading in a SE direction. It was a cloudy night except where this object or objects hovered.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #145080). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-03-04 → 2019-03-21
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July 14, 2023 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Spanaway, WA
I'm twenty nine years old and I've never seen anything like this. I stepped outside to hit my vape and get some nicotine in my system, and when I do so at night (in this case about 10:50pm) I like to look up at the sky, we're near JBLM so theres always planes, I frequently see satellites, even got to see Mr. Elon Musk's string of satellites flying through the air. But tonight was something different I was looking at what I thought was a star, until it started moving then my mind jumped to satellite. But it was anything but, it started to move fast and sporratically. Taking sharp turns, up and down, left and right, I took my phone out and started recording as quickly as I could. It was also strange to me that my phone camera wasn't picking up any of the other stars and yet somehow had no issue seeing the one light in the sky I was trying to record (thankfully) I ran back into my house to get my cousin to come out to be extraordinarily sure I wasn't going crazy. But by the time we made it back out of the house to look, it was gone, so much for an extra witness. Now I regret taking my eyes off of it.
June 11, 2022 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Spanaway, WA
me and my brother (Me - 12 Him - 7) saw two black dots flying completely symmetrically and at the exact same speed, when we first saw them they were flashing blue, but then stopped after around ten seconds, we could only see them when they were in front of a cloud but when they went in front of the blue sky they were impossible to see, they couldn't have been drones because it would take an extremely skilled person to fly a drone completely symmetrically and at the same speed along with another person doing the same thing, also they were too far up to be looking down with cameras (around 2,500ft up) they also looked like black dots, though I couldn't tell what shape it was.
May 4, 2021 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Spanaway, WA
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August 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Spanaway, WA
A large bright stationary "star" spit out several star looking objects which would then disperse in different directions. The objects then moved across the sky in different directions while visibly dodging other objects in the sky. Some of these formed triangles following a single craft. The large bright stationary "star" then spit out 1 large RED CRAFT. These objects were high enough in the sky to have the appearance of stars. The red craft shot across the sky diagonally which crossed directly above me and my sister. The res craft was bright enough that we figured we could pick it up on camera. I started recording and my sister asked jokingly asked the "ufo" if the aliens were here to let us know they are here. Immediately the craft stopped propelling directly above us when she asked almost as if it knew we were staring at it. The craft then flashed BRIGHT lights down at us and descended towards us rapidly while continuing to flash at us. Each flash had a heatwave that came with it and our faces felt sunburned while our heads felt like we just had ct-scans. The craft then hovered above us at an estimated 500 feet above us. It went from clearly above 30,000ft to 500ft above us in a matter of seconds. As it flashed at us I felt magnetized to stare and almost stuck where I was. It started to get closer and my sister ran inside shouting "RUN" but I felt like I couldnt move. To be honest I don't know how long I stayed outside staring up at the bottom of this craft. When we went outside about 10 minutes later the craft was gone but you could smell melted tar from our roof. We then watched multiple crafts roam the sky the entire night. I do feel that if I had stayed outside longer when the red craft came down that I would have been taken. I am actually not sure if I lost time or actually was taken because the next thing I knew it was nearly midnight.
August 14, 2020 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Spanaway, WA
Me and a friend were headed to Arby’s on mountain Highway in Spanaway, WA as we are driving down 176th and approaching B st at the intersection there it’s a traffic light as well as we looked to the right we both screamed “Oh my god” we both saw what looked possibly like a mini stealth bomber or drone barely moving almost hovering about 100 to 159 feet off the ground. It was black really thin and had two or three lights on the bottom. It was about about 500 to 800 feet across I think I’m not good with guessing that type of stuff, but we were freaking out we looked at each other in disbelieve then when we looked back it just had disappeared in the trees. It was insane. I believe it was a military aircraft but what was it doing out there?
November 27, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CHANGING
Spanaway, WA
So I went inside grabbed my binoculars saw it was odd then went back inside for my camera and new batteries. two pictures batteries die, replaced them took two more pictures and they die too. After a half hour and 3 sets of batteries I got twelve pictures. Very strange colors so bright and changing shape and subtle movements. I have lived near my local military bases forever no plane or craft looked like this. I watched it til it disappears around 2a.m. .