Circle over Sunrise, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While on vacation in Washington, we went skiing at Crystal Mountain. We got off the bus & we were loading our ski gear into our car. I glanced up and saw something lit up in the sky. I assumed it was a helicopter or airplane so I went back to what I was doing. Then, my mom also looked up and told me to look again. This time, the object was much closer to us and lower to the ground. It slowly & smoothly passed over us at a low elevation - close enough to see that it was circular and had a blueish white glow to it. It was also moving completely silently. I passed over us from north to south and then took a hard turn to the west and disappeared behind the bluffs.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166631). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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