Circle over Port Hadlock, WA
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Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156553). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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May 16, 2021 · 1:50 AM · OTHER
Port Hadlock, WA
I let my dog out at 1:50a or so, maybe 1:45a. Clear skies, bright stars visible. I looked up to the east and saw a string of bright white lights slowly passing by. The length of this was about as long as my index finger, extended to arms length. I had binoculars and my cell phone just inside the door, so I looked at the lights through the binoculars. Crystal clear lights, straight line, very close together. They were as bright as the stars and made no sound. A few in the line were not "turned on", making a break in the line, but there were about 35 all together. As I was trying to turn on my cell phone camera, the lights had moved out of view, hidden by the fir trees in my backyard. I saw on a youtube channel that a few other people within 50 miles of me saw this too. One man described it as "The Empire State Building laying on it's side". He felt it was a solid object from his angle, and he used binoculars, too. I think of it as a string of lights.
July 5, 2017 · 4:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Hadlock, WA
I saw two distinctly triangular shaped "shadows" cross through the high clouds, about 5 minutes apart, as I was resting in the local park in the grass. The sky was mostly blue except for one very large, high broken cloud mass that I just felt like watching as it broke apart above me. I had polarized sunglasses on and I don't know if that made a difference, as I kept them on. The thing I saw first was the most visible. It was a triangular shaped object that moved through the clouds it was just behind, very quickly, and it was darker than the blue sky that was coming through the clouds. When it had gone past the cloud formation it disappeared. It was not visible against the blue sky, just the clouds. I continued to watch the clouds and another triangle sped past in the same direction, heading approx. north to south. Again, it was not visible in the blue sky, just behind and across the scattered clouds. Both sightings lasted less than 3 or 4 seconds and there was no sound of aircraft noted. This is a very quiet part of the Olympic, though we do have Navy Growlers and occasional jets and light aircraft fly over. None were noted at this time. These were high clouds and the objects had to be pretty large. The only size comparison I can come up with for this report is that they were slightly larger than the tip of my thumb, arm outstretched. I am a small woman with small hands.
April 7, 2015 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Hadlock, WA
I had gone outside later in the evening to view Betelgeuse, which was nearing the horizon and whose scintillations are quite lovely, as it glints in all colors. Above Betelgeuse were Castor and Pollux, and in the space between them I noticed an red-colored light, star-like in appearance but not twinkling. Soon it was joined by an identical second light source and then a third, the three of therm forming an inverted isosceles triangle that persisted for several minutes. I wondered if it were a reflection of headlights or other artificial light source, but there was nothing in the sky that would present a suitable reflecting surface. The objects appeared to be getting nearer and brighter and then assumed a globular shape as opposed to pinpoints as observed earlier. Their color also changed from red to amber. No sound was apparent. I went inside to grab a star map, but the objects had vanished during my absence.
April 6, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Port Hadlock, WA
I had gone out to watch Betelgeuse whose scintillations are lovely at this time of year when it is close to the horizon. My attention was drawn to a point of light, red in color and steady in brightness. It appeared in the area between Betelgeuse and Castor and Pollux. After a few moments, it was joined, one after another, by two identical points, the three forming a perfect triangle, two of which were separated by about the same distance as Castor and Pollux are from each other. The base of the triangle was on the top with the third light underneath, closer to the horizon. As I watched, the three became larger, but their configuration did not vary, still a triangle but a little more orange in color and much brighter, resembling an amber-colored street lamp, i.e., a sodium vapor light. I dismissed the sighting initially, thinking they must have been artificial in nature; however, their appearance was arresting, as they seemed to be moving toward me, growing! ever brighter in intensity. I was transfixed, having some considerable familiarity with nature sky object, yet these were out of place, and I had no explanation for them. I went out the following morning and confirmed that the area in which I saw the objects was open sky.
October 1, 2002 · 5:56 PM · FIREBALL
Port Hadlock, WA
big shooting star