Circle over SanJuan Island, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were watching the whale cam *live* through the YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxA5QSgBWLhG9gCannb1OUxoaH7Q3u97Al The sun was just setting, it was starting to get dark. We saw an object rise up from either the base of the mountain or the ocean. It sort of looked like a circle with lights coming off of it was white and had blinking white light. It gradually floated up into the east direction skyward and then disappeared. About 2 seconds later, another one launched close to the same spot. This time the object floated westward then floated beyond the viewing area. This happened again two more times. The fifth time was brighter than the rest, as it started floating skyward, it got brighter then started to fade, then get brighter… then the feed went gray.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174195). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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