Cross over Castle Rock, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Stopped at the new gas station in town, and wanted to take a picture of the sun against the smoked filled sky from the wildfires. I got my phone out to take a picture, and I noticed the sign that tells fuel prices was flashing back and forth; however when you were looking without a camera (i phone) it was not flashing. I decided to take a video, and it continued to flash. I was waiting for my husband to finish pumping gas, and out of the left corner of my eye a black blur went by. He came over to look at the video to confirm that the fuel prices were flashing, but we’re still when looking with your eyes. We came home and watched the video. It could not be any clearer that I captured the fast black object fly past me and disappear into the sky. The object can be seen in the first 2 seconds of the video darting across from the right of the screen to the left. We were able to identify this happening throughout the video and believe we spotted at least 4 different objects. The end of the video it can be seen swooping in front of me as a sphere and then can be zoomed in at the last frame on the top right. These were not drones. It seemed to change color from black to white when it crosses over the fuel sign. It appears to almost have a bat like movement. If you want the 1 minute video then I need to be contacted directly. It is beyond anything I have ever seen before.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171687). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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