Light over Centralia, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
To be honest, I don't believe it was an "Alien" type of UFO, just a UFO in the broadest sense. It is quite bright (2x brightness of Jupiter). The speed was very slow. Not a satellite, or plane/helicopter. Path was South to North, passing roughly 3 degrees over Moon. Possible unknown small comet, or asteroid? No visible "Tail" Lost sight after passing trees and buildings.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158583). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-13 → 2020-08-30
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March 25, 2021 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Centralia, WA
In Centralia, WA around 9pm I was on my way outside and looked up at the sky. It was cloudy, but I distinctly saw 7-9 glowing starlike orbs traveling south to northeast dipping under the moon. They were in a v like formation with the center point leading like a flock of geese. It seemed to me that they were their own entities. I thought they may be shooting stars at first but they were traveling too slow for that. It lasted about 5 seconds. My friend who was on the other side of the yard also saw the same thing.
February 23, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
That night around 9 pm I went out to my car to grab my charger. I looked up and saw a orange light in the sky. I thought it was a bit weird because it didn’t look like a plane it was one orange light in the sky that was kind of big in size but not huge. You could clearly tell it was not a plane. The orange light began to brighten and then dim, like it was slowly pulsing but it stayed orange the whole time, never changing colors. I yelled for my relative to come and take a look to confirm what I was seeing but while they were trying to get outside the light pulsed one last time and then seemed to just fade away and it was gone. I have been looking at the sky around the same time for 3 weeks now and have not seen it again. But I do know it was not a airplane or a helicopter, the light was orange like a pumpkin orange and it was a big singular light in the sky.
February 2, 2020 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
19:10 Sunday night I saw what looked like a bright planet in the sky. I assessed the brightness of other objects in the sky because this looked too bright. I checked to see if it was moving and found it was stationary. I had to run an errand so dismissed it. Upon returning I looked again and found it was gone which wasn't right if it were a planet. I surveyed the sky and saw a bright light due west of my location, moving toward me I thought until I realized it was growing smaller and actually moving up and away from me in a straight launch angle in a west southwest vector until it left the atmosphere, I assume. It disappeared in a matter of seconds. It was completely silent throughout the observation.
January 1, 2018 · 12:10 AM · CYLINDER
Centralia, WA
Saw object over trees. Thought it was fireworks because of the holiday, but it headed south in a straight line, then made a V-pattern to the east. It went back to the original line it was traveling on, then stopped. After stopping for a few moments, it continued and stopped again, and did this one more time. It then made what seemed like a 90 degree turn, directly away from me, into the upper atmosphere and disappeared.
September 11, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
Centralia, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
They are still moving. Different directions. Coming from different ways. They look like moving stars.