Circle over Olympia, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was watching TV last night and as I was getting ready to head to bed I looked out my living room windows that face Due West and noticed what I thought at the time to be a star. After watching it for a few moments, I noticed that it was moving Left and Right in short jerky movements. As I watched it, the movements became longer and more lengthy in duration and speed. It would move to the right for half a second and then to the left. At roughly 2219 I grabbed my phone and started to record it both on video and still pictures. The more I watched it the more random and steady the movements became. at about 90% of the way though the duration on my viewing it became very almost deliberate and at the last moment it shot to the south west and covered 2-3 miles in less than a second and was gone. This may not sound relevant but I had literally just completed watching Expedition Unknown on the Discovery Channel and they had just completed an hr long investigation of the Mt Adams area and had recorded something near there that was as close to what I was seeing as you could get, A Bright white light, 2-3 times larger than Venus and it moved in near circles and back and forth left to right in the same manner that the object that I witnessed did. They experienced virtually the same thing as me but I am 150+ miles to the NW of that area. My home faces west and has a large A frame style so I could see if from several different positions in the house. I uploaded the video to Facebook and almost immediately friends started mentioning that they had seen it too and one friend that I have know for 25+ years mentioned that she had seen the same thing back in the 1992-1993 in the house that she grew up in. That house is 1.5 miles from me and faces the water in the same direction as mine. I would say that the object was just about 10 degrees above the horizon due west of my home.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #154155). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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August 13, 2023 · 9:30 PM · EGG
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I am an experiencer. I have had regular sightings since 2009 and several previous close encounters so this didn't really scare too much although it was strange. I was out walking the dogs and I see a white light orb type silently flying from west to east Olympia as it approaches the airplane lane going North/South it blinks off and on a couple times then shrinks down to a pinpoint and vanishes. Then about ten minutes later as I'm walking back to the house through a parking lot I turn around and see a large pulsing orange light. It is not blinking like a airplane light it is getting big and bright then shrinking and dimming but not going out completely. It is coming closer toward me and I notice that the orange light looks like a giant spotlight that is rotating in all directions around a black sphere or egg shaped craft. The craft itself was so dark like vantam black reflecting absolutely no light. The thing continues to get closer it slows down and speeds up, as the orange light moves around like an eye, seemingly searching for something on the ground. As usual, the object made no noise. I waved my hands and step forward and say 'here i am' but it ignores me and flies off in a North Easterly direction. Just as I lost sight of it, a giant orange fireball tears across the sky in the same area I had just lost sight of the craft. I assumed it was a meteor but not like any meteor i've ever seen before.
January 7, 2023 · 11:59 PM · CIRCLE
Olympia, WA
Continued- I immediately put my phone camera back up for more pics, and seen it on the phone screen from the camera,, but not visually & it disappeared in a green streak right before I tried to snap more pics staring at it on my phone screen trying to make sense of it for a few seconds..
November 12, 2022 · 7:20 PM · FORMATION
Olympia, WA
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July 4, 2022 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
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November 29, 2021 · 4:30 PM · CIRCLE
Olympia, WA
Very bight light located as reported in the sentence above. The light was stationery and there were clouds behind it and it was before sunset, so it was not a star. We watched it for about 5 minutes as clouds passed behind it. Finally it became obscured by cloud cover.
February 17, 2021 · 1:30 AM · FLASH
Olympia, WA
I was on my phone in bed when I noticed a flashing light coming from outside the window next to me. Immediately after the light, I heard a weird mechanical type of sound. Sounded like something grumbling or a cog in a machine moving. Both the flash and the sound lasted a second each. A few seconds later, another flash happened followed by that same mechanical sound. Both flashes occurred within around a 10 second period.