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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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July 17, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
Got poor video of light in southwestern sky approximately over Vancouver wa. Light was extremely red, then would move alitlle and change colors to a light blue then to red. Solid light for a while then it would blink. Stayed above ground in location like a hover, thestarted to move downward towards the ground pretty fast. Then it disappeared.
July 17, 2018 · 12:45 PM · LIGHT
Mercer Island, WA
At Luther Burbank park having a night swim, observed what we thought was a satellite traveling very quickly across the night sky. It suddenly stopped, moved to an almost infinity pattern and then a huge flash of light like 10x of a normal stars brightness and was gone. Not more than 30 seconds later I observed another UFO traveling West, but this was more of an erratic movement than the previous UFO. It stopped suddenly, seemed to move up and down and flashed even brighter than the previous one and was gone from the naked eye. My boyfriend and I were screaming, “What did we just see?“ over and over again. We got quite. 10 minutes later we spot ANOTHER object in the sky moving at high distance, stopped between two stars and seemed to be moving up and down, almost like a ping pong ball and then just stop. It stopped moving for 15 minutes and then would very slightly look like it was falling down and catch itself and move in the same star position as before! Very Very active over on Mercer Island this early morning. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 14, 2018 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Seattle, WA
Having just paid, we lined up for the Bainbridge Island ferry in downtown Seattle, on the north side of Colman Dock. At the time it was 81 degrees F, the skies were clear and blue and visibility was good. After walking to the end of the dock to take photos I returned to the car. At about 7pm, while watching a jet flying overhead, I noticed (also to the south) a white round or oval object a bit to the west of and much higher up than the jet. It did not seem to be either taking off or landing so I watched it. After a few minutes it remained in place so I pointed it out to my husband. He thought its shape was odd (not plane-like). At first he thought it was moving but after observing it for a minute or so said it was remaining in place. At about 7:05pm we both saw something extend out of it temporarily (for between 15 to 20 seconds). The extension appeared smaller than and the same color white as the main object and it too was also round or circular. At 7:05pm I took one photo of the object with my cell phone. After maybe 30 seconds the same object emerged from the main object again. Again it retracted into the main object. Thereafter, during the entire time we watched, this happened at the same intervals regularly. The second object may not have been extending and retracting but only appearing to as perhaps the entire object may have been rotating with something extended from it. It was too far to tell. After watching for a bit the second object appeared to me to be an arm with something circular at the end of the arm. My husband saw a round object emerging and returning to the main round object (no arm). He thought the extension was maybe another (a second) circular object like the main one. At no time did we see anything actually leave the main object. We agreed as we watched that it was not a plane, conventional drone, kite, blimp, or helicopter (it had no tail, wings, or rotor). We did not hear any noise from it. At 7:08 I took a second photo of it with my cell phone. We tried but could not identify it and got back into the car to wait (where it was cooler because of the A/C). We each looked at the object every so often. At around 7:10pm my husband said it was slowly fading. I looked and thought it was maybe drifting south but my husband thought it was slowly ascending. After a couple of minutes we could no longer find it. Though the line for the Bainbridge Island ferry was about one third full by 7:05pm during the sighting I did not notice anyone else watching it. There were cars lined up on the south side of the ferry terminal heading to Bremerton but I could not see them so I do not know if anyone there saw it. Based on its relative position: to us where we were on Colman Dock and to the various jets we saw take off, it appeared to have been over Boeing Field or SeaTac Airport, but was at a much higher elevation than the jets taking off. As it was far above us, there was no way to estimate its size. Neither of us ever did identify it. Of the two photos I took, neither is a good photo but after zooming in fully, the object is visible in each photo. In the 7:05pm photo it is a white diamond shape with rounded diamond points. In the 7:08pm photo it is smaller than it is in the first photo, and not a diamond but a blurry conical shape. No extension is visible in either photo.
July 13, 2018 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Birdsview, WA
I was camping with family at a private members-only campground on the Skagit River, near Birdsview, WA. Our camp site is located on the Skagit River, about 400 feet from the river and in mostly old growth forest. I have been camping at this location for 8+ years and at this campground for 25+ years and have never seen anything strange at night. We turned off all light sources and no one else was camping nearby. Our fire was out when we went to bed. I was awakened by my young daughter sleeping next to me inside our large tent, who was having a bad dream. I noticed what appeared to be a bright moon beam hitting the top of out tent, but as it turned out, this was a night of a new moon (no visible moon). I turned around and then noticed white lights projected onto the outside of our tent, dancing near the roof of the tent. I could see leaf silhouettes from a nearby tree outside our tent. The overall effect of the projected lights was that it appeared to be fire-like, moving quickly and morphing rapidly into various wispy shapes. The color of the lights was white interspersed with light yellow. I had the impression that somehow my camp fire had reignited and was casting shadows on our tent, but the height of the shadows and angle of the leaf silhouettes was too high to be such a reflection. After a minute the lights changed to two horizontal rows projected onto the outside of the tent, near the top of the tent wall where it meets the roof. These rows were about 4 feet long and 8 inches high, and extended past the edge of the tent. The rows were comprised of many rectangles (maybe 5 inches x 8 inches) with diffuse edges. I also noticed that other lights were projected onto the roof of the tent but I could not see any details since the dark maroon-red rain fly was covering the roof. I had two ear plugs in that I then removed to check for noise, but the forest was extremely quiet and I could hear nothing. I examined the light projections closely and noticed that the rectangles were moving and overlapping each other, and each rectangle was a slightly different hue. The rectangle edges were rapidly moving and they appeared to be comprised of hundreds of frantically moving vertical lines, when I examined them for several seconds. The lights then grew dim and stopped two or three times before coming back brighter and with additional rectangles extending up to three feet below the two horizontal rows. After another minute or two I climbed completely out of the sleeping bag and kneeled in the middle of the tent, waiting for some sort of escalation or attack. I did not wake up my wife or two young kids since I did not want them to see the lights and be scared. I thought about unzipping the front door of the tent and looking outside but this is where the lights were coming from and I feared that doing so might escalate things in a negative way. As my daughter continued in a sleep-walking state and began whining and climbing toward the bottom of the sleeping bag, as if to get away from the lights (which later she said she never saw), the lights suddenly stopped and went pitch black. Then they started up again for a few seconds and stopped, and did this once or twice more before suddenly ending. Within a few seconds my daughter then woke up and announced she needed to go to the bathroom outside. I was afraid to go outside so soon after this incident, but grabbed a flashlight and took her outside and behind the tent. I searched the sky, trees and area with the bright LED flashlight but noticed nothing unusual. The sky was amazingly clear and many stars were visible. I also noticed that our fire had somehow reignited and a small flame was leaping out of a log and creating a strobe effect, which was visible well above our camp site since the light from the fire could be seen across the bottom of the old growth canopy. This fire-like strobe effect was one of the images projected on the tent wall when the lights first began. I had the strange feeling that we were visited by something that resembled an animal that was scouting up and down the river for something. However, this "animal" somehow emitted lights with patterns. The animal may have seen the strobe effect from our fire and came down for a better look. This is just my impression. We did camp in the same location for the next 5 nights, without anyone noticing the lights again. I did examine this situation for the possibility of a drone prank, but the old growth canopy would have been very difficult to navigate and the incident happened in the middle of the night. I checked with a few trusted local sources and no one had ever heard of drones in the area, or of similar incidents. Please note that there have been several big foot sightings in this same area, and that an old Native American Indian burial ground resides in the area of our camp site, though the exact location is still unknown. We have installed a game camera to capture video or photos, in case the lights return.
July 13, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Leavenworth, WA
I was sitting outside in my yard, waiting for coals of my fire pit to cool down enough so I could feel safe leaving them for the night and not starting a grass fire since the wind had begun to pick up quite a bit about an hour after sunset. I live at the tip end of a long valley and only a small portion of the sky facing south can be seen from where I was sitting next to my fire pit south facing. It was a strange feeling I had come over me, all the birds and bees had stopped making noises except for a pair of hooting owls who had been the chorus for the evening, as if that alone was not odd enough. I suddenly got the startling realization that I was not alone, something was over me observing me almost critically I felt. There was no one who I could account for since we live out in the middle of nowhere practically and it was only my husband and I home that night and he had gone to bed an hour prior to this experience I began having. At first, I got very scared and tried to refocus my eyes from the fire to the pitch black that surrounded me, but there was not a peep of anything I could see or hear virtually nothing, and that creeped me out even more. Out of panic and to calibrate my location I looked up to see where the stars were in the night sky, and it seemed they had all but one gone into the darkness as well. It was very odd that on a clear night sky no clouds I could observe no glittered sky just one single throbbing orange light beaming up in the night sky. It was very obviously not a planet and was slowly moving closer to my location but seemed at least a mile or so away. I was locked into its hypnotic throbbing pulsing, slow like the rhythm of a heart and it seemed to be directing all its attention into me! This may be a delusion, given my frenzied state, however it lingered in the gaze for such a long time I thought if I kept looking at it, it might zap my brain or take my soul from my body or worse, I was not sure really. It seemed like it was trying to do moriss code as it crept closer but I have no clue what Morris code signal it would be trying to send to lil old me alone in the dark in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night! Maybe it just enjoyed my fire pit and wanted to say hi. Either way after about 30 mins of locked focused gaze my fire pit was barley glowing and I had come to determine it was time to go to sleep. One I got to bed I woke about every hour just to take a peek to see if this thing was still out there and it was! Last peek was the break of dawn, I wish I had thought to take a picture. If I see it again I will be sure to follow up with photos. Good news is it returned last night as well, so here’s hoping it comes tonight as well. Peter I love you for all the hard work, dedication, and love you have for this subject. Your the best, thanks for letting me share.
July 11, 2018 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Moses Lake, WA
This was broad daylight, my brother and I are sitting in the yard rigging up our fishing poles when we see a military commercial style plane flying from West to East we assume heading for Spokane. We were instantly " freaked out" by what we saw. Understand, this is a normal plane in a normal flight path... and right underneath the tail we see an object very close to the plane kinda dancing around for want of a better term. This object was a dark color, no lights no sound other than the plane and approx. 1/6 the size of the plane. As we watched the object flew around the tail and was now above the tail with that same weird undulating motion. A moment later this object flew directly in front of the plane extremely close to the nose. We were thinking we were gonna see a crash--very scary thing to see. I ran upstairs to get the binoculars that any other time would be where I looked...of course they weren't there. In the time it took me to race back downstairs, I could still see this object in front of the plane headed East. Either we were seeing some new drone tech being controlled by that plane or we were seeing the definition of a U.F.O. There is no way the people on that plane were not aware of this object in either case- if this thing could sweat....the drops would have hit the plane, that's how close it was. Very unusual and disturbing.
July 10, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Moses Lake, WA
Recently, I have noticed a very bright star in the sky and me and my fiance have argued over it being a star on the 4th of July on the 7th I'm sorry of this month my father-in-law told me that he thought it was Venus and I told both of them it was way too close to be either not last night but the night before which would be the 9th I kept looking at it and then when I was getting ready for bed I looked up and it was gone so last night I was out doing some things before I go into bed and I looked up at it and it moved very slightly not very roast is very slightly so I got my phone out and started recording it unfortunately the first recording that I took cuz I've got a new phone was deleted when I tried to turn on the second recording I do have the second recording of you are interested in the footage but this thing is very very bright and every time it would go to drop the light would get brighter and it would be longer I wasn't able to tell if it landed but, if you can no longer see it so in my opinion it did hit the ground it did go to the ground but if it did it would have been on the very edge of town or in town
July 5, 2018 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Rochester, WA
In the clear Western sky, I saw what looked like a very bright star or planet, but it was more yellow than white and seemed to flicker. I watched for a minute or two and it disappeared then reappeared. I went outside and took some pictures and video with my phone. Zooming in it was definitely not a star or planet. It changed colors and seemed like a light with a glowing aura that changed colors, yellow to a blueish green and back to yellow. Each time it appeared it would be in the same vicinity, but not in the exact same place. It stayed in the same place but appeared to me moving in place if that makes sense. I filmed for 42 seconds and it disappeared on film. I did not move the phone. Then it came back for a third and final time and I filmed for over 3 minutes zooming in and out to try to get a better focus. I stopped filming and then filmed another minute or so and it appeared to be moving and fading in and out until it disappeared again. On the 3 minute video, an anomaly occurred that was only evident after viewing it after the fact. There is one second that something like a cloud or a vapor passes closely in front of the camera, but the orb never disappears in the far distance. There were no clouds or mist around me while filming so I have no idea what it was. About 20 minutes after it disappeared completely, large aircraft began circling the area where I saw it and I also have some footage of that, too. The only thing going on that night near that vicinity was the Indian Reservation was setting off some loud fireworks, but nothing like you see on the 4th of July. It looked more like lightening. This orb was off to the right a good distance away and low in the sky, but high enough for me to think it was a star or a planet. Most people are telling me it's a drone, but I haven't seen footage of drones behaving in this manner or that were this large. I am willing to share the footage, but I don't see where to upload it to this report. Please let me know if you would like to see it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2018 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Silverdale, WA
Driving to 7/11 in Silverdale, I witnessed a circle of rotating lights that consisted of red, blue, and white flashing at a steady pace. After I went in and made my purchase, I entered my vehicle to look back in the same direction and I sad a glowing orange circle in the same location I had seen the previous lights. As I began to drive and sat at the light the object begin to move. When I reached my residence I called my wife to see the orange object which was still there and she saw it but right before our eyes it turned a bright white brighter than all the stars.
July 5, 2018 · 4:15 PM · CIRCLE
Spokane Valley, WA
The objects were equal distance apart and I could not find any recognizable features. The remained an equal distance apart from one another as they flew. I was stopped at a red light so I took video of them. When the light turned green I had to proceed and could no longer tape them. I have been an elementary school teacher for 20 years.
July 4, 2018 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Redmond, WA
A light appeared and was moving in an infinity sign moving very fast and right above us. The light was coming from above the clouds. After about 20 rotations, it disappeared and then came back, but was still then disappeared
July 3, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, WA
These lights have been appearing nightly for at least two years, beginning at about dark, in the sky either over western Auburn, or slightly farther west. They are not conventional aircraft. They do not have any red/green running lights, they are much brighter usually, and often they flash brighter, systematically. They are composed of what appears to be either one, or as many as 3-4, bright white lights. They hang in the sky for several hours usually, sometimes moving short distances to the left and right (as viewed from east of them, on Lea Hill Road in Auburn), sometimes moving farther to the north. There are normally three or four of these objects which appear at once. The normal air traffic in the area can be seen passing in front of them, and it seems to ignore their presence. Sometimes the objects appear to flash red or blue. They are almost always present for at least 2-3 hours, and sometimes have been present as late as 3 AM. I am a professional UFO author, a witness of at least a half-dozen sightings of alien spacecraft during my life, and an abductee as well. I am not likely to misidentify conventional craft as a UFO. I am familiar with most types of military craft, including stealth craft and exotic craft. I do not know what these craft are, but they cannot be conventional aircraft in my opinion due to their configuration of lights, motion in the sky, presence in the same location for so many nights, and the fact that they are clearly brighter than conventional aircraft’s white lights. They should easily be spotted by radar from Auburn airport, Boeing Field and Seatac. As to the possibility that they could be drones, I tend to doubt that idea. There is no reason that I can think of for drones to take up the same position in the sky, night after night, for literally years on end, when there is nothing of particular interest happening in or around Auburn that anyone would have reason to go to so much trouble and expense to observe. They clearly are unconcerned about being seen, and usually just hang in the sky, moving short distances roughly north or south and then returning to where they were initially. Could they be some type of alien craft? I cannot answer that question, I only know they appear to be distinctly different in appearance to conventional or military aircraft I am familiar with. Someone surely will be able to identify them, from Seatac or Boeing ATC centers. Whether they will do so honestly is another question. It seems noteworthy that NUFORC has received no other reports about the alleged, nightly sightings. We will encourage the witness to obtain high-quality photos of the alleged objects. PD
June 30, 2018 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Longview, WA
No information provided by witness. PD
June 27, 2018 · 11:35 PM · DISK
Vancouver, WA
I was on my way to the store about to get into my car around the time 23:35 when all of a sudden I look in the sky and I see something that looks like a saucer with the very vivid colors which were a clear blue and a pinky reddish color spinning in circles.
June 24, 2018 · 8:15 PM · CYLINDER
Mt. St. Helens (general vicinity; in-flight), WA
Peter, UFO Altitude 23,000 ft, heading 295 degrees mag, craft descended out of clouds off left wing tip. Closed to 5 miles or so out. Held formation for appx 30 to 45 seconds then ascended at almost nose up 45 degrees into clouds in what seemed instantly. Time 8:15 Seattle time. Just east of volcano on horizon. Mount. St. Helens I think. The source of the report is very well known to NUFORC, and is of unimpeachable integrity. Also, he is a skilled a/c mechanic. We are awaiting a detailed report from the witness. PD
June 23, 2018 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Vancouver, WA
Shiny, black double-ball shaped in vertical fashion. Object was approximately as large as a small airplane. Was moving slowly south/southwest, stopped for a moment and moved north/northwest and circled back south. Began moving upward into a cloud and disappeared from sight.
June 22, 2018 · 8:24 PM · SPHERE
Puyalup, WA
As we were driving and I was in the back seat looking at the back window I looked just above the tree line was a big red hot sphere huge hot sphere following us it was it looked like the sun it was so hot and it followed us we're doing about 45-50 mph and I'm telling my two friends in the front seat what the f is that what the f is that and they look and they say the same thing what is that what is that was his biggest fear following us and all the sudden it shoots back goes backwards without any hesitation goes back to where I think where we first had crossed its path and then came back right to to us where I can see it right out the back out the window above the tree line and then we just watch it cloak into invisible but you can still see the sphere but we want to go invisible they have the ability to just go invisible because at least 20 to 30 ft around huge red sphere glowing
June 21, 2018 · 11:14 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I just witnessed something unusual - 8 red lights traveling from the direction of the sunward horizon - West to East. The objects, by their action and the way the light dimmed, appeared to be at orbital altitude. They came from the West and then progressively dimmed as they traveled toward the East. What makes it unusual is that the 8 objects appeared and disappeared within a span of approximately 5 minutes. Also the red color was unusual as I am used to looking for sky junk and watching it pass overhead, but it is, in my experience, lit white by the reflected sunlight. All came from the same part of the sky in succession and were closely grouped. I don't know what to make of this but thought it unusual enough to report.
June 21, 2018 · 10:38 PM · SPHERE
Yelm, WA
Sky lit up orange then a orange sphere descend stopped for 45 seconds then descended out of sight then 5 minuets later and orange sphere rose up from the same area hovered and then 4 more appeared moving around then all disappeared I have pictures
June 17, 2018 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Chehalis, WA
While driving on pleasant valley (between Napavine and Adna area) road in Chehalis, Wa.m to the west of road about 100 feet off the ground was a saucer shaped craft that just disappeared away behind some fir trees only after a couple seconds. It was very detailed as an airplane might be at that distance. I could not hear a sound from it. I had my air condition fan on. Craft was oval shaped with a dome on top in the center of craft. Looked grey color with no markings but it was only there for a couple seconds. Thanks
June 12, 2018 · 11:53 PM · FLASH
Olympia, WA
I was laying down when I noticed a light in the sky from my bedroom's window. I got up and looked more closely to see it, initially assuming this was an airplane with lights on the wings flying at night. This also made sense to me because it was cloudy tonight. The weird thing about it was that the light coming from whatever was flying was what seemed like bouncing around in the cloudy skies, but all the whilst staying in one spot. The light was bright white. I then called a friend over to check it out without saying what I was looking at, and then it started to become very erratic. The light would bounce and also change direction. My friend also noticed the flashes had a pattern, it was one flash a slight pause and then 3 quick flashes. The direction change wasn't extraordinary, just bizarre in the sense that it was not a normal flying pattern for a plane. My window was also open and there was no sound emitting. A couple times, in the six minutes of its ! duration,we looked away, once to turn the lights off inside my apartment to get a better look, then again to look for my binoculars, and then again to find a place to report this. As we were looking for my binoculars, within the span of around less than 20 seconds, we looked at the previous spots it was no longer there or had vanished. What this flying thing was I have no idea. To me and my other witness the only thing that was evident, and very clear was this bright bouncing and changing light flashing in a pattern. We are both young adults. I am from the Midwest, and he is from the PNW. I have never seen anything like it. We considered the possibility of drones and while I don't know what that would look like at night with a flashing light it did hover mainly as it changed directions, however it looked really high and to me in relativity with that height the light must have been massive, or extremely bright.
June 10, 2018 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Entiay, WA
My wife and I stopped at a gas station and while letting the dogs out I noticed an orb/sphere in the clouds, it caught my eye because the clouds were going by quickly yet this sphere stayed stationary. I pointing it out to several others and soon a crowd was watching this sphere flying erratically, moving in all directions. The display went on for at least 15 minutes before the craft flew up and out at an extreme rate of speed.
May 28, 2018 · 11:09 PM · LIGHT
Clarkston, WA
I was watching the stars and saw a red flashing light traveling through the sky like a jet plane. It slowed and then stopped and hovered and continued to travel East, then turns and comes, back so then I grabbed my phone and started video taping. I also took a photo which appears as a red ball of light. In the videos it travels under the moon and stops close to a star. It then decends at a rapid speed and slows down and slowly descents to the ground and goes behind a tree. 3 hrs earlier a sighting was apparently seen in California with the same footage. So this can’t be a drone. We spoke with the witness via telephone, and she was quite convinced that she had been witness to something very unusual. She corrected the time of the sighting, which we have amended above. PD
May 28, 2018 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
I was looking at the Seattle city-scape from the 4th floor of the VA hospital. I thought I would take a picture of the buildings with my phone. When I held up the phone to snap some pics I instantly realized that something was flying around above the city. I could see it on the screen of my phone but the object was completely invisible to my eye. So I snapped a couple pics and then realized i needed to start recording video. Which I did. Got about 90 seconds worth of video. I later noticed a second object flying above and to the right of the more visible one. Posted the video to my instagram account @legendkontinues ...I would be very happy to have it analyzed by a digital audio/visual expert.