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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
6,210 entries
July 24, 2021 · 4:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Bothell, WA
North Bothell, WA... Between 4:50-4:55 PM my wife and I were sitting on our front porch which faces East. I know this to be the exact time because we called my sister and cell phone shows called made at 4:52. As we talked on speaker phone, my eye caught something moving north-to-south (from Mill Creek to Bothell) straight across the sky. It was hard to determine elevation and size but likely at a thousand feet or so and small, round shape (?). It was shiny and appeared reflective so hard to determine the exact shape. I saw it first and asked. "what's that?" My wife looks up and immediately says, "a bird". I continued looking to make sure it wasn't a sea gull or white bird flapping wings, and beyond a doubt it was not a bird. I said, no way that is a bird. That looks really strange. She could tell it wasn't a bird either and then replied, "a mylar balloon". Ok, now a balloon caught in a wind current is a possibility and fits som! e of the description. I am rational and reasonable and this could explain it. However, something just seemed off about that explanation. I tried to get my brain to see it as a mylar balloon but the size, speed and way it moved could not reconcile. I would not waste my time reporting this if I was confident it was just a balloon or a drone. We continued to watch it as continued out of view... no other changes as it went out of sight. Am curious if anyone saw and reported this same object?
July 22, 2021 · 1:55 AM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
Saw like a helicopter type thing going low over I-5 but I really couldn't tell if it was a helicopter, that is why I'm saying a helicopter type object thing. I tried to see if there were any spinning blades on top or on the tail but it was going in front of us so fast, in front of our moving car. I did see like a sliver light blinking on it that I could see very well. Just thought I would report this because I just couldn't quite tell if this was a helicopter or a helicopter type object thing.
July 21, 2021 · 9:24 PM · TRIANGLE
Napavine(?), WA
My two friends and I were heading north towards Olympia, Washington on I5 coming from Portland Oregon. We were past Winlock, Washington and not yet at Napavine, Washington. My friend (the driver) said to me (in the right side back seat) and his wife (who was in the passenger seat) something along the lines of hey do you also see that thing in the sky or is that just me. It was about 21:23. When I looked up there were about 6 or 7 white lights that were glittering in a triangle pattern. They were just stationary in the air above the trees forward and to the right of the car. I thought it was fireworks but they just stayed stationary glittering for about a minute while we discussed whether or not it was an airplane. I then thought I should take a picture of it and as I did the lights turned off one by one, or maybe two at a time, but not all at once and then it was gone. I got a picture with only two of the last lights on. About a minute later I took a screens! hot of where we were on the map on my phone. I have never seen anything like this before, I have no idea what it was. The driver and I are 21 and his wife is 22. He and I are college students and she just graduated.
July 20, 2021 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Spokane Valley, WA
Was floating in backyard pool, lights off, looking up at sky directly above me. Saw a slow steady bright “star or planet like object” heading from SE to NW. I thought it might be the ISS, and when I later went in I confirmed there was indeed a 6 min flyover that I just was lucky enough to catch. The unsettling part was when the ISS was directly over my head, I could see the stars behind it as it past by them, those stars (4 in this case) actually moved and absolutely “bracketed” the ISS as it moved across the sky. Almost like a targeted object in a scope. So the 4 “stars” were positioned at a (12, 3, 6 and 9:00 position) around the moving ISS. MOVING WITH THE ISS, the stars moved with it for almost 20 seconds. There were no clouds in the sky ( I made sure of it after the event), as sometimes moving clouds make stars look like the stars are moving. At the end of the “bracketing “ timeframe, the ISS moving towards the NW sky and I knew I’d lose it soon…but bef! ore the ISS was out of range, the 4 “bracketing stars” each moved outwards at same time from their prospective compass points (12:00 went up, 3:00 went right, etc) to form a larger bracketing diamond. Keep in mind they just looked like stars (same dimness as background stars in night sky), but just after they widened their bracket, the stars randomly moved in all directions and stopped dead in the sky, meanwhile ISS moved on to the horizon and started to dim. One last look at those “stopped” objects and they blinked out 2 at a time. First 2 just disappeared then within 1-2 seconds later, 2nd 2 blinked out. Couldn’t believe what I was watching and I know what I saw was not stars or my sight being weird. Would be interested to know if the ISS or radar picked up anything at that moment, since I know exactly time and area (based on ISS Flyover time and direction.
July 17, 2021 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Normandy Park, WA
One section of the sky lit up over the sound between Vashon island and Normandy park, the bright light subsided a bit and an object appeared and hovered for approximately 20 minutes, it was not the moon
July 15, 2021 · 6:00 AM
Shoreline, WA
I know this is not UFO related BUT I really, really got scared by hearing some woman's voice from somewhere saying something like It's going to die or it will die. I heard no other noises at all, no sound of a door opening and closing, it didn't sound like someone was on a cell phone on a speaker, I just didn't see who was saying the words that I found not happy to hear and that is the part that I got so scared by. I know there has to be some exclamation of what and why and who was saying not pleasant words, I just don't know that exclamation, yet.
July 12, 2021 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
Pacific, WA
I saw a large 300 sq ft Chevron shaped object in the sky, very bright white in color, it took off at an extremely high rate of speed from the eastern sky towards the northwest direction and disappeared.
July 12, 2021 · 12:53 AM · CHANGING
Snohomish, WA
The video is unedited. I don't monetize, but post for friends. It was silent, except for a quiet higher-pitched warble-whir, you can hear it, but it's not a rotor whir. It was much larger than the video shows, and close; less than 500 feet. It made the hair stand up on my arms. I was looking North and it was traveling W to E, at approximately 60 degrees, behind the trees, and moving slowly. It was a bright golden-colored diamond shape at first, but it changed, got rounder and changed colors as it moved away. I apologize for the shakiness as I'm not used to filming these things. I use an ISS tracker, a sat tracker and a plane tracker. It was none of these and WAY too close to be a sat anyway, too silent for a plane, drone or helicopter, no flashing lights. It was the third fly-by that night as I took my pooch out to go potty, and I caught it as it moved away. I have a star and planet tracker that I use and it un-calibrated the compass on my phone as I tried to use the a! pp. It was quite beautiful and much closer than the other two that came by first (from completely different directions).
July 11, 2021 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Sultan, WA
Stepped outside around 11:30 pm was looking south east and saw a faded triangle shape light fly from west to east at a very high speed no blinking light like I see on A plane also that it flew in a path that jetliners do not fly
July 8, 2021 · 3:16 AM · FLASH
Bremerton, WA
how can I say what I saw it was traveling fast as a falling star through clouds and before it was a military jet flying low about 20' from the tree tops and as it passed I was looking north and a bright light came out of the clouds traveling towards it's last seen direction I looked but couldn't see the jet or the light any longer as they must have changed trajectory in some event after the light traveled out of the clouds from an unknown origin
July 7, 2021 · 1:40 PM · OTHER
Tacoma, WA
White silk sheet looking thing flapping in the wind, but moving through the sky using a swimming motion. Holding altitude about 2000 feet. Over Interstate 5 just south of the Tacoma Mall heading south west bound.
July 3, 2021 · 11:01 PM · FORMATION
South Hill West of Orting, WA
Group of lights came from south valley moving around each other and changing directions like a drone swarm but too large and too fast. We watched them form triangle shapes and spread out again. Moving several miles across the night horizon. They elevated over the eastern ridge line towards Carbonado and Northern side of Mount Rainier, fading away. A few of us have phone video. Bright white lights. No sound.
July 3, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CHEVRON
Clarkston, Washington, WA
I saw this fighterjet style ship streak in sideways from warp and completely stop. It was glowing orange from entry and did a backwards flip into this fog barley visible and disappeared in this on a blue sky by the time I turned 15 degrees to the right I could see these two starlike side by side satellite s coming towards me they emitted an unique ping n sound it echoed in the similar way that sonar does but much stronger it was hard to tell if the ping sound was coming from them or from my mind I could feel it's sound sonar penetrating me as they side by side flew over and disappeared in this opaque blue sky that the very earthly looking spaceship flew into... I could see weaponry and guns on it and me and the pilot made eye contact it was weird because I could feel him notice me I think he was telepathic I could feel him notice me as I did him while he was doing his backwards maneuver looking down on me as he dissappear in this invisible cloudlike vapor indistinguishable from the blue of the sky. Orange hot from entry he just stopped in a streak he came in sideways and stopped kinda sideways it looked like a very unnatural entry like he come in from warp sideways cuz it was fast corrected by this backflip style maneuver into a cloaking .the only sounds I heard were from the two satellite the ship was silent completely silent
July 3, 2021 · 3:40 PM · OTHER
Port Angeles, WA
UFO sighting On July 3, 2021 at approximately 1540 hrs. while sitting in the backyard of a residence located in Port Angeles Washington, a group of four of us observed three silver in appearance objects high in the sky over Olympic National Park. We retrieved a pair of binoculars to take a closer look. The following is a description of what we observed. The objects resembled shiny silver doughnuts. Each of the objects were tumbling end over end. One of the objects appeared to have something whitish in color trailing from it, although it was difficult to see given the distance. The objects were located more or less in a horizontal line in the atmosphere when viewed against the horizon. We observed the objects approximately 40 minutes. Through our course of observation, the objects moved north towards Canada.
July 3, 2021 · 10:00 AM
Lopez Island, WA
Unknown eerie sound that sounded like music someone was doing but not quite sure if it was music. I was sleeping in a tent up at Lopez Island and I heard this unknown location of this spooky sounding music type like thing but again not entirely sure where this sound was coming from and if it was really music. This eerie sound was quite faint but I could still hear it and felt strange listening to it inside my tent. Hope I'm doing this right.
July 1, 2021 · 4:54 AM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was trying to observe the elongation of Polaris by looking at the handle of the big dipper. A bright light flew overhead at high speed, silent over my location. It traveled NW (at an approximate azimuth of 35-40 degrees from true north. Possibly a meteor. A few minutes later I looked in the same general direction to try and pinpoint the track of the first object and I saw a bright flash like a star had just dimmed out.
June 28, 2021 · 10:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Lakebay, WA
I heard the rumble of a helicopter and waited for it to pass by my house. It was a clear but dark night. I noticed it pass my house from the west traveling east towards Tacoma, it was flying at about 2 to 300 ft , I noted the lights on the helicopter and a black mass about 4 times the size of the chopper. The black mass had no lights and appeared to be a rectangular craft. Since I live in a forested area, I could only view it for 15 to 20 seconds. I am use to seeing choppers from Lewis/McCord but never have I seen one following a blackout object as tonight. If not for the helicopter, I don’t think it would have made a sound but I couldn’t be positive on that.
June 27, 2021 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Yakima, WA
Was sitting in our field and looking at the constellation Scorpio. All of a sudden to the top left of the constellation a star looking that wasn’t there before appeared out of nowhere. As it lit up it became brighter than all the other stars then it disappeared as quickly as it appeared and then nothing was there. About 3-5 minutes later the same thing appeared but this time above the constellation Scorpio. I thought it was all over because nothing else happened for a while. About 10-15 minutes later it appeared for the 3rd and final time but this time was to the right of the constellation. There was no other explanation of anything this could have been. Nothing comes as high as the constellation in the sky and there were no planes or anything else that I have ever seen do this. There was no sound at all either.
June 20, 2021 · 10:46 AM
Tenino, WA
Source of report includes no information. PD
June 20, 2021 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
none-Frenchman Coulee Gorge, WA
Sightseeing in gorge on roadside observing waterfall close to noon (approx. 11:47 am) on cloudless sunny day, with airline contrail visible in sky to our center-right position. Person in our party, with 40+ year career in military/corporate aviation, spotted 3 glowing lights in upper sky (below contrail height, but well over 2000 ft. height) coming from horizon line approaching us from the north with southward path in a horizontal formation. When the lights were closer to us, yet still north of edge of gorge and waterfalll, we saw the three glowing objects form a vertical line, then a horizontal line, then a triangular formation; objects were spaced out in position, not immediately (such as 5 object spaces) next to each other and seemed to be holding/stationary in the sky. Object on the right hand side of triangular formation shot out to the east/right, than snapped back into its position on the right of the triangle. At this point, all we saw were brilliant! ly glowing spots in sky until all 3 objects rotated in same positions in sky from left to right (west to east). At this point, only one side of the craft was revealed to be triangular, silver, and multi-dimensional shape (not a flat side) with the brilliant glowing orb/light still to the left side of the craft. The silver-colored side reflected in the sun brilliantly and clearly showing its dimensionality and seemed to hold that position for a few seconds, It rotated back, so that we could only see it as a glowing light again, which disguised its shape. After this aerial display, the craft resumed their journey to the south, flying directly over us in a triangular formation; directly overhead, looking up, they appeared to be triangular shapes. Another car with 2 passengers stopped next to us to watch the first part of the display, then left the scene. As the objects were flying overhead, another set of 3 glowing lights/orbs was spotted on the horizon, again, headed southward toward us. At this point, we decided to leave the area. We discussed attempting to take photos of the objects, but decided our phone cameras could not capture the objects very well, and we were riveted by the aerial display. There was no sound in the gorge area at the time, and no sound emitted at any time by the objects in the sky. I live approx 6.6 miles directly south of runways of one of the largest commercial airports in the country. In my opinion, from observing commercial jet airplanes constantly departing/taking off, the craft observed turning in the sun was the size of a commercial plane on its sides. I am also very familiar with the sounds of large commercial aircraft as they land or take off or cross over my residence, and these objects did not emit a sound as they passed over us. As they passed over us, they were significantly higher in the sky than a commercial airliner flying over my residence on takeoff from my local airport, but lower than airplanes seen in our area only passing over VOR points.
June 18, 2021 · 4:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Spokane Valley, WA
I noticed something strange in the sky, so I grabbed my binoculars for a closer look. Binoculars are Galileo Model G-1250 so I can see 12 times farther than the naked eye. In the field of view through the lenses, the object was about 1/2 inch wide and 1/3rd of that in height. Rectangular shaped and red. It was the color of a cherry. The object spun horizontally, which doesn't make any sense. It really looked like a car, and that doesn't make any sense. It even looked like there was a wheel too, a small one - with a rim, the same as a car wheel would. I could not make sense of this thing. I even wondered of it was that Tesla that Elon Musk released into space, but it wasn't falling fast like it should have with the gravitational pull. The object was too strange to be a plane or an air balloon. It wasn't a helium balloon. It was too big to be a drone. I do not think a remote controlled device can fly that high, but I do not know. It was just a spec in my eye w! ithout the binoculars. I grabbed the binoculars because of the flash the sun made on it when it spun. The spin speed was about as fast as a beacon light for aircraft to see. The metallic sheen flashed brightly when the sun reflected upon it, when the object made a horizontal rotation. I put down the binoculars to try and focus my eyes on it and try to get a photo, but when I looked up again it was gone. I only took my eyes off of the object for a 2/10ths of a second. I regretted putting my binoculars down. I was facing south, and the object would be about south west if the face of the compass were facing me. There were no lights. I can hear sound through my windows, but only a small amount. I heard no sound coming from the object, and there were no streaks. The sky at the time, as I looked through my window, was cloudy, but blue sky was also visible, and the sun was able to flash off of the object. This sighting happened around 4:52pm on June the 18th. Feel free to contact ! me if you would like.
June 18, 2021 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
I looked out my kitchen window to the south at about 3:30AM on Friday morning June 18 2021 and saw two star like white lights in the sky that were about the same brightness as Vega. The lights were about 5 degrees apart in a east-west orientation in the close proximity to the star Altair and were not moving and looked exactly alike. After watching them for a few seconds the light to the east slowly dimmed out followed by the light to the west dimming out in the same manner. I ran outside to see if the lights would return or if I could find some more. After looking around the sky for a while, which was very clear at the time, I didn't see anything else unusual. I'm a amateur astronomer and I've seen plenty of satellites brighten and fade away, but these objects did not move! Never seen anything like it. They could have been there more than 15 seconds as the lights were already there when I looked out the window. This was not Starlink!
June 13, 2021 · 9:51 PM · DISK
Ford, WA
June 13, 2021 At 8:51 pm in Ford Washington, my sister called me (50 yards away) telling me to run outside “it” is moving towards Springdale/loon lake direction. My sister indicated she was able to get some video before she called me and my brother to go see it. The sky was clear, there was an illuminated object moving north, approximately 10,000 ft up. It was silent, appeared to be lightly inclining. I watched it as it was heading towards a line of overcast thin cloud line. I knew that IF the object entered the over cast cloud line that I would still be able to see it as it was Extremely Bright and the cloud line was thin. As it appeared that the object was going to enter the cloud line..It just vanished. My brother and his son, standing next to me also witnessed this event. I asked my brother “Did you see it enter the over cast cloud line”? He said, “No, it disappeared before it entered it.” This objects illumination was like white fire, I have never seen anything in the sky illuminated like this object.
June 9, 2021 · 2:14 PM · SPHERE
Bainbridge Island, WA
On Wednesday afternoon, June 9, 2021, from my office in Winslow on Bainbridge Island, I noticed out the window a hawk hunting. It slowly circled over the complex across the street and then circled a bit north as a crow came from the east and dove at it. I went outside to watch. As I did,a tiny white object caught my eye. The object was east and a bit south of the birds, but much further away and higher in elevation. It was flying from south to north and maintained its speed, direction, and elevation. It was white or looked white against the blue sky and appeared round. I could not identify what it was. It had no tail, no wings, no prop, no rotor, and I did not hear any sound from it. I saw no other color except white and looked but could not see any lights, appendage, or anything on it. It did not emit anything, no exhaust, smoke, light, and didn’t leave anything either, like a condensation trail. I looked to see if anything else was flying near it, but! I did not see anything. I watched for as long as I could see it but eventually it became difficult to see. I lost sight of it as it went further north and faded from view. I looked for them, after, but could not spot the hawk and crow. Unfortunately, I had left my phone inside, so I did not get photos or video. Perhaps a minute or two after my sighting, a small commuter plane flying southeast to northwest flew overhead but it was closer to me and much lower in elevation than the white object had been. Afterward, I made sure to note the time and estimated that I probably watched the object, all total, for not quite a minute from probably 2:14 to 2:15pm PDST. I checked and the Flightradar24 app and it shows no return for the east side of Bainbridge Island or over Puget Sound to the east of Bainbridge in its radar record, for 2:14 – 2:15pm. I took a screen capture of the 2:14pm radar map. The next radar return that would be visible from my front yard (2:17pm) is the commuter plane that I saw about a minute or two after I lost sight of the object. The commuter was Maverick Airlines Flight APC 690 in a Cessna 208B Grand Canyon flying from Boeing Field, Seattle to Port Angeles at 3800 feet, flying at 153 kts. ground speed when it was overhead, according to the same app. I captured this too. At 2:14pm PDST, the approximate time of my sighting, the conditions on my street on Bainbridge Island, Washington were approximately 61° F, sunny, and blue skies. Some low clouds passed overhead during the day, but none were visible at the time of the sighting and there was no wind. It was mild and there was only blue sky. I checked but the Heavens Above website’s database of all satellites’ flight paths, online, shows no satellites (of any kind) flying over my location from 2pm to 3pm, June 9, 2021. If I had not happened to go outside to watch the hawk and crow, and if they had not been where they were in the sky, relative to me, I never would have noticed or had reason to notice the object. Nothing would have drawn my attention to it. The small white object could have been a drone, but its speed was impressive for its small size and lack of exhaust. I still do not know what it was.