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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
August 13, 2020 · 3:54 AM · LIGHT
Stanwood, WA
Primarily points of light, similar to stars, slightly brighter. Roughly 20 of them in a line, spaced apart and staggered, with one triangular formation in the center. They were moving East at a gradual pace. I, the observer, had just arrived home from work, and I often look at the stars to appreciate their beauty. I've seen plenty of satellites, shooting stars, and planes at night. I've never seen a UFO. And so I was surprised to see a new formation of stars in the sky, and even more surprised to see them moving. It had an "unsettling" effect on me, as the sight was so unusual and out of place.
August 13, 2020 · 3:00 AM · FORMATION
Rochester, WA
I was out watching the meteor shower when I noticed along the bottom of the skyline something that looked like an ant trail of lights in perfect formation maybe 10 of them I'm not sure how many I didn't count them I was to busy trying to figure out what I was seeing they looked light dashes or minus signs they didn't blink but stayed solid white light no hazeiness to them I stood for approximately 5 minutes watching them go from west to east in two straight rows without sound then all at once they shot straight up and disappeared.my cat was pushing against my legs and then running away he did it multiple times yowling as if to say run
August 13, 2020 · 2:00 AM · DIAMOND
Renton, WA
Turquoise bright light that was real quick HOWEVER there were sounds of crunching leaves, like Several people were walking in the woods behind my house. Very strange indeed.
August 11, 2020 · 9:30 PM · CROSS
Spokane, WA
Flew low overhead slowly. Cross shaped with 4 red blinking lights on end of each wing and one white light in center. Not bright like a landing light No outline of fuselage. Low rubble sound that was not heard until it flew directly overhead. 2nd was sighted to the west on an upper ward trajectory went through wisp of cloud and did not see reappearing. I am familiar with typical airplane and helicopter light patterns as I grew up on military bases. Never saw any shape such as this.
August 11, 2020 · 2:30 PM · TEARDROP
Lake Kachess (Easbound on I-90), WA
Driving east on i90 I saw a teardrop shape grey illuminated metal vessel raised in center. The vessel wobbled over tree line, flying dangerously/ illegally low for an aircraft then moved extremely fast and hovered over lake kachess then quickly came over freeway extremely low/ close to cars. No wings. No rotor. No sound. Looking for somebody driving on this part of i90 on aug 11 at 230 with dash cam. Never seen anything like this before.
August 11, 2020 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Langley, WA
Awoke at 4:00 AM and looked out bedroom window. Saw a light, circular and thought it was a star. It was a clear morning 8/22/20, quiet, and looking closer saw it was bigger and hovering, spinning. It also changed colors and went to white. It started left, right and back getting smaller. Last I looked it was 4:23 AM, so a good 24 minutes viewed. I took video with my iPhone. Sending via email with date.
August 9, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lynden, WA
My wife and i saw 2 bright lights to the southeast. We thought planets at first, but then they abruptly faded away.
August 8, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Yakima, WA
I am 20 years old and have never had a UFO experience. I was sitting in a parking lot with my significant other and we noticed what looked like a comet hovering above the hills, probably about 50 miles outside of town, to the northwest. It had a silver hue to it and looked almost like it had a tail, except it was all one object, it seemed like. It seemed reflective, but the sun was going down, so it was hard to tell. We had to drive away, but then we came back, and it was gone. We didn’t see it move at all while we watched it the first time, so it seemed strange that less than have an hour later it was gone. We watched the sky for awhile as it got darker, but we never saw it again.
August 8, 2020 · 4:40 AM · CYLINDER
Glenoma, WA
Me and my buddy who I carpool with where driving home it was about 4:40 am and we seen a string of lights just over the hillside skyline .when I seen it I asked my buddy if he could see that and what it was, he responded that he seen it but wasn't wanting to point it out . At first we couldnt tell if it was light reflecting on a power line or logging operations because sometimes they start very early in the summer. We pulled over off the side of hwy12 and got out of the vehicle not long after we got out the lights started moving across the the sky toward the east.another driver pulled over just in front of us and got out and started watching the object. I have no real logical explanation for what we saw it looked to be very high in the sky and massive. You could really tell the shape just a long string of close lights that were perfectly straight and moved steadily across the sky in a straight direction toward the east.we watched it until it went back behind! the hillside it was visible for a couple minutes.i tried to take videos of it but it didnt turn out my buddy got a video of it that isnt the best quality but you can see the lights. I've never seen anything like this before I dont know what it was except it was not a natural occurrence.
August 7, 2020 · 4:40 AM · OVAL
Kelso, WA
We saw an oval shaped object at about 3000' elevation. Object had dim light running through center. Looked like Blimp, but didn't have any noise from engines. It was traveling North at higher speed than any Blimp I've seen.
August 7, 2020 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Moses Lake, WA
I woke up about 3:50am. Went outside to look at the stars. I looked up and to my amazement there was a flying object that looked like a LED oblong light. Really high in the air, not as high as the stars, but seemed like it. No sound that I could tell was from the object. I saw it moving SW to NE. I ran in to get my camera, but it was too dark to take a picture, couldn't find the binoculars... So ran back out and it was still moving across the sky. My husband was telling one of his customers about it and he was up getting ready for work, and saw it too. Can't imagine what it was. Maybe military...?
August 7, 2020 · 4:00 AM · CIGAR
Onalaska, WA
I went outside around 4:45 am a bright light in the sky caught my eye. At first I thought thought it was a comet but realized it was a solid object moving across the sky. It was a cigar shaped tube slowly moving east. I ran back in woke my wife up we ran out and both watched this object go slowly east then slowly east and slow down and turn north over Mt. Rainier. This craft made not noise and was very large. I cannot be the only one to see this ufo.the sky was absolutely clear and I ould see the stars behind this ufo.
August 7, 2020 · 4:00 AM · FORMATION
Zillah, WA
Straight line of satellites bunched close together moving SW to north
August 7, 2020 · 3:05 AM · FORMATION
Olympia, WA
I saw a long white linear formation going down the sky at night, very slowly fell or went across sky to the East. I thought it was a meteor but it was too slow. I quickly got binauculars and it looked like linear object with white round lights. It was bigger than diameter of moon. no noise produced or crash heard. it continued in straight line toward horizon maybe towards Joint Base Lewis McCord until the trees blocked further view. maybe a deflated weather balloon reflecting light from moon?
August 6, 2020 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Tacoma, WA
I saw a huge craft off of I-5. At first I thought it was a plane but realized it was too big and it was hovering. I saw something fall out of the bottom of it that had lights also. I was driving and couldn’t pull over and take video. I was shocked at what I was seeing and am totally convinced that there is no way I could have been the only witness.
August 6, 2020 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Edgewood, WA
My buddy and I were smoking in an open field when we both were struck with a very bright light that blinded us for a second. Our best guess was lightning but there wasn’t a could in the sky. We were completely alone in the dark and have no explanation for where this light came from. Our friend had just passed away the day before so we thought maybe it could have been him, but my best guess is a ufo.
July 31, 2020 · 4:00 PM · CIGAR
Vancouver, WA
My wife and I were driving East with traffic on SR-14 towards Camas, Washington. During the sighting I noticed the truck behind me swerve onto the emergency lane, then re-enter traffic after the objects disappeared. I assume he was seeing the same thing we were. I noticed two cigar shaped objects at the same moment. One looked metallic, the other was metallic and extraordinarily bright. One traveling North to South, and the bright object traveling South to North. They were in almost the same location to begin with but when they separated, my eyes tracked the bright object until it was out of sight. I then looked South for the metallic object, but it was gone. I alerted my wife to the bright object moving North, she did not see the metallic object moving South. She was able to observe the bright object until what she described as the object "disappearing as it entered the tops of the trees". That area is a heavily wooded hillside.
July 30, 2020 · 7:10 PM · OVAL
Kenmore, WA
My wife and I were enjoying the view from the hot tub on our back deck. It was a clear evening and blue skies with no clouds or wind. Looking SE, I noticed a large shimmering white oval shape silently hovering in a vertical position approximately 400 yards from us at an altitude of around 300 feet. Its size was about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. I asked my wife to look and see if she saw what I was looking at she said yes. At first we thought it might be a balloon, but it was too big and the wrong shape. As we observed this stationary object, it began to slowly rotate. The rotating object appeared to have panels that changed to a darker shade. I then jumped out of the tub and grabbed a pair of binoculars that were close by and focused on the unit. Just then the object quickly dropped about 50 feet, and then shot back up to its original height. This made me put the binoculars down. Just as I did this, I saw 3 or 4 small white lights flash approximately 50 y! ards to the left of the object and it just vanished. No wind or any sounds were heard during this event. 3 minutes after the UFO left, a low flying military jet flew right over us which seemed odd and out of place with the usual aircraft we see.
July 26, 2020 · 10:00 AM · CIRCLE
Millcreek, WA
10:30.First saw Green blinking lights in the kitchen window. They blinked and were green. About 2 min later I was on my way out to throw the trash and saw a light blink in the sky so I went outside and saw a white circle blinking and it started to move then just disappeared. Right after that happened cop stones went off every where.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Black Diamond, WA
My daughters and I were at a park in Black Diamond which had good horizon visibility. We used my telescope and a new lens I had acquired to see Jupiter and Saturn. While I was looking for the NEOWISE comet (northern sky), my daughter approached me and eagerly pointed to the southern sky in the vicinity of Jupiter. There were a group of a few dozen round, bluish lights moving slowly across the southern sky from east to west. The brightness was a bit less than a star or planet. Much of the SEATAC air traffic is visible from that vantage point and I’m convinced these were not commercial or small aircraft. They were also not satellites like Starlink – I’ve seen those and know what they look like. I had 5 or 10 minutes to watch with the naked eye and through my telescope (6” Dobsonian at 48x magnification). The objects’ light intensity remained mostly constant and when viewed through the telescope the lights appeared round in shape. The movement of the group appeared to be in a loose formation. I tracked 3 of them through the telescope for 30-60 seconds and their relative position to each other remained mostly fixed. Eventually the lights began to fade or spread out enough that not more than a few were visible at a time.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Kent, WA
My neighbor and I witnessed what appeared to be a cluster of star like moving objects in the southern sky moving from east to west at a slow pace. They did not appear to have any organized shape or formation and the objects slowly changed in orientation over the few minutes we watched them. They eventually appeared to slow and disappear from view behind the neighbor’s roof-line and I believe they may have started moving south out of view from there. I checked out photos of the Starlink satellites and what we watched were definitely not those satellites. What we saw had no definite pattern or orientation and were scattered in a changing cluster of lights. The objects formed somewhat of a “J” shape from north to south and under the largest formation was a trailing cluster from east to west. There were in the same area of the sky as Jupiter moving towards the west.
July 25, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Balck Diamond, WA
We set up our travel trailer at Lake Sawyer for the weekend. So Saturday night (25/July/2020) at about 10:15 PM PDT, we were starting to settle in for the night. My wife was inside getting the kids ready for bed and I was outside picking up some things. I looked up and there was a series of bright lights traveling across the sky. Unfortunately my phone could not record due to the darkness outside. I called out to my wife and she saw the "event" as well. - Travel direction approximately NE to the SW. - 2 or 3 dozen (possibly more) very bright lights. Think of an approaching plane. - All traveling the same direction. - No solid pattern. Somewhat oval shape overall but changed slightly. The majority of the lights were grouped in this main shape. - A few trailing lights appeared to have changed speed to attempt to catch up to the main group. - The lights appeared to be in low atmosphere, not in orbit. - Lasted about 5 minutes or so.
July 25, 2020 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Greenwater, WA
On the evening of 7/25/2020 several groups of friends gathered for an annual mountain bike ride in the White River valley off Mt Rainier. At the location is a lightly used airstrip, Ranger Creek, and campground nestled in the trees just off the runway. Prior to the event, between approximately 21:00 – 22:00 hours, 8-10 people sat at the northern end of the runway observing multiple shooting stars and satellites. The night was the clearest we’d seen in years coming to the location. The campground was not empty, there were approximately 300 people staying in tents, RV’s, or car camping. Our group dispersed the airstrip and went to their respective accommodations for the evening. At approximately 03:00 I awoke to use the restroom and rather than use the toilet in my camper I opted for the woods since it was so clear and warm that evening. As I was completing my relief the ground lit a wonderful green color and I could see the shadows of the trees on the ground,! this lasted around 1-2 seconds. Feeling fear once the shadows started moving I looked up and saw nothing but a green ball of light moving very fast, over 300 mph (planes take off in that direction frequently under 100 mph known). There was zero sound from the light nor in the campground and no wind. The light stayed green, glorious bright green like a neon gas lamp, and moved very rapidly seemingly +/- 500’ in altitude above the runway heading at 344 degrees. The runway is 2800’ in length with a 2000’ shear cliff wall 1.3 miles away in the direction of the flight. I am unaware if the light continued down the valley or maintained it’s heading over the cliff wall to the east of the valley.
July 25, 2020 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Snohomish, WA
While sitting in my car visiting with my sister, I looked up to the dark,clear, night sky and saw 2-3 large, BRIGHT Orange orbs, that initially I thought to be Chinese lanterns, but as I continued to stare, they were not behaving like lanterns or drones, and I pointed them out to my sister, and we got excited, and out of the car to get a better look, at which time she exclaimed-’GRAB our phones and take photos”, so we did. I took a few and then also a 2 minute video. WE were in AWE, as the way they behaved and looked, was of NOTHING of this world or technology. They were intensely orange and almost seemed to hover at first, and looked to be in a sort of formation/relation to each other, then went from hover to forward motion, in sync, maintaining perfect distance from each other. WE noticed NO NOISE or sound from them, and it was a VERY QUIET evening. One seemed to disappear, then THREE more appeared! We watched them fly from the north towards the south, in the Eastern view of the skyline, and then out of sight or disappeared, we couldn’t tell? This took probably a period of about 5-7 mins total, as my video was two minutes long etc...wishing of course, it was of BETTER quality, as I was so excited, and tried to zoom in on them a couple of times.