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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
January 1, 2018 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Seattle, WA
Here is the video link: http://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-rings-in-2018-with-new-years-at-the-needle/281-502828048 The event occurs at approximately 6.38 seconds into the video. The object appears to be hovering over the Puget Sound on the left side of the screen. It is a rather large object flashing green. It is somewhat erratic in its lateral movement, then it rapidly shoots straight up in the air. Just about that time the videographer cut away, so it was impossible to see where it went. Object looks to us to be a small quadcopter/drone. PD
December 31, 2017 · 5:28 AM · TRIANGLE
Ephrata, WA
3 lights in a triangle formation, ascending and descending, 90 degree turns at a high rate of speed. Also wave like movements. This object was also here this morning before the sun came up.
December 30, 2017 · 12:00 PM · EGG
Liberty Lake, WA
My husband was photographing eagles in a tree and discovered a UFO in the picture, we have had no rain or ice that day on our living room window, This is not a helicopter or airplane or anything we have ever seen before. We would like to share this photo with someone but we don't know who we can trust or what to do with picture.
December 25, 2017 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Yakima, WA
I saw 4-6ft dia. white orb 15ft above ground slowly approch, then split into 3 identical orbs aprox.50 yards from where i was sitting.
December 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Edmonds, WA
Around 7:00PM yesterday my family and I were heading down to visit my aunt in Edmonds. We were almost to the intersection of 9th Ave. South and Walnut St., traveling down Walnut St. heading West. That's when I first noticed 5 reddish/orange glowing objects in the sky out over the Puget Sound. We immediately pulled to the side of the road just before the intersection. We sat and watched the objects for around 2 minutes. Upon pulling to the side of the road two of the objects sorta just blinked out, then one reappeared before vanishing, leaving just three objects which now formed a massive triangle shape. The triangle then just slowly rotated before each reddish/orange object vanished. Not sure what, or who that thing was, but it was not a plane, or group of planes, drones or Chinese lanterns. My girlfriend and I have seen sightings like this online and never thought we would ever witness something like it ourselves. Naturally we both opted to leave our phones at home and my mom's phone has a potato camera so we didn't get any photos or video. But I'm glad I could just be in the moment to experience it. Truly mind blowing.
December 21, 2017 · 4:12 AM · DISK
Olympia, WA
I was driving around Rock Candy Road looking to see if there were any good places for star watching. I wanted to find a good spot in my area for viewing the space station, away from lights. I wake up early every day for work and just couldn't fall asleep after I woke up so decided to go for a ride since the sky is clear today. I did not know if there was a gate to get into Capital Forest, so I drove to check it out. Just past the parking lot for the trailhead there was a bright flash, everything illuminated like lightening, but there were no clouds and no storms anywhere close. I stopped my car and got out to look at the sky and grabbed my iPhone. I saw a black round, maybe disc object maybe 100 feet from me, about 40 feet above the trees. It made no sound. My iPhone was completely black, then after a few seconds I saw the apple logo and realized it was rebooting. I never shut it down, it did this on its own. The object was only visible by the fact that it block out the sky and made no sound at all. It moved to the WSW and behind some hills and I couldn't see it anymore. I got very emotional afterwards and started crying. I am very skeptical of these sorts of things and have no idea what the object was.
December 20, 2017 · 11:00 PM
Seattle, WA
Witness provides no information about the incident. PD
December 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, WA
December 13, 2017. At About 9:00 PM Pacific Time December 13, 2017 in Vancouver, Washington, I saw what I strongly believe to be a UFO. I was outside to watch the meteor show when I saw an object moving from West to East. I was looking north. If you were to hold up a ruler at arm’s length it travel about 18 inches. Without slowing down it then made a very sharp turn south maybe a 90 degree turn and if holding a ruler at arm’s length I could see it travel about 4.5 feet. If you held up a dime at arm’s length that would be about the size of the object, maybe slightly larger. It appeared to be round but not sure if it were a true round object as I was watching this at about a 70 degree angle from the ground which would give it a slight appearance of being oval. But I would say it was round. They were few clouds out that night and there were no clouds interfering with my view of the object. The best way I could describe the object is as follows. Picture a perfectly round fried egg and hold it up at a 70 degree angle. That round egg now looks slightly oval which is how I saw it. The background that the object was seen against was night time black. The whole object was not bright but very faint as if there were clouds beneath it, but there were no clouds beneath it as the stars in the same area were brite. The entire yoke part of the egg would look an orange/red color, but more orange than red and faint. The entire white of the egg look like a translucent aura with the same color as the yoke but much more faint as it did appear to be translucent. I could not see any dome or any other geometric shapes. So there were no distinct individual lights just this faint glow. It travel in a perfect straight line going from west to east, and when it made that sharp turn to the south. It also traveled in a straight line. It did not move up or down, no other objects were seen with it. There were no flashing lights and no other color then the color describe above. It made no noise of any kind. Aircraft from nearby PDX could clearly be heard but no sound came from the object. There were no other aircraft at that time that may have covered up any sound coming from the object I was observing. It was traveling at a speed I would say somewhat faster than aircraft landing or taking off from PDX. If it was a UFO I would say that the speed it was traveling at was a good cruising speed for a UFO. Also when it turned south it would have been heading toward PDX or near PDX. This object maintain the same altitude the whole time I observed it and it was not in any typical landing pattern for PDX. There were no trails of smoke or haze it maintain the shape of the egg and everything I observed about the object stayed within those perimeters. It was not somebody on the ground with some kind of light shining up into the sky. There was no beam of light going up into the sky plus anyone on the ground would not have been able to shine a light for the distance that I saw this object travel. A light coming from the ground would have been interrupted by houses and trees. It also was not a weather balloon. There are four very distinct attributes about the object I observed. 1) Appearance was larger than any aircraft I have seen flying overhead. 2) It made no sound. 3) The aura that completely went around the object. 4) It made a very sharp turn. All other aircraft I have seen have to make a curved turn, this was a sharp turn like the corner of a square. I will be 71 years old in February 2018 and in my life time I have never seen anything like what I saw, or anything closely resembling what I saw. Since this was in such close proximity to the PDX airport this object must have appeared on their radar.
December 11, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Skykomish, WA
I had snowshoed to appx. 4,600' level on NE shoulder of Cleveland Mt. SW of the city of Skykomish on US Hwy2. I dug a snow cave in a clearing that has clear site line to Skykomish below. It was dark by 5 PM so I was using a headlamp by the time I finished around 6:30 PM. Then I began melting water, cooking and getting ready to sleep. It was completely dark and NO moon light. Around 7:45-8 PM I started noticing how clear and dark it was and how brite the stars were. Then I noticed 2 objects moving slowly toward me appx. 500-800 feet higher than my camp. They were moving SW toward me from above Skykomish. At first I thought brite stars then I thought Passenger Jet lights far off in distance. They were about 1/2 mile apart. One seemed to be coming much closer and headed right toward my camp. Now I could see many different small lights Red, Blue, Green which seemed to change colors sort of fading in and out (not flashing) The shape was hard to make out. Seemed to be round or multi pointed star shape. The one coming closer was moving about the speed of a small helicopter but made no noise. The other one seemed to drift south slightly and then stayed close to one spot roughly above Sobieski Mt. to East across the Miller River valley. Both objects appeared to have Aircraft Like "White" Strobe Lights that seemed to come from the top but not all the time. Neither object made any noise at all. Since it was too slow to be an airplane and wasn't loud like a helicopter I began to think the one coming toward me must be a drone. I estimate it came to within 600-900' from my camp but I still couldn't figure out the shape. It did not seem to be shaped or marked like a small plane and did not move like one at all. The lights seemed to shift around different ways which could be done by a drone rotating while also flying in a relative straight path. I don't know how far away a 4-6 propeller drone could be and you still would not hear the familiar buzzing of its propellers? These seemed larger than any drone I have seen. Perhaps 6' Dia. or so. The object coming closest then turned slowly South and then SE toward the other and then circled over the wide valley area that is 2-3 miles West of Skykomish. The object that moved much less over Sobieski Mt. slowly dropped altitude until it was blocked from sight by trees. The one that circled seemed to slow and hover off to the North across the valley for awhile then slowley moved on West until I lost sight of it. It was about 15 minutes that these were visible. If someone was flying a drone from Skykomish it would need to have a range of 2-5 miles to not risk loosing very expensive equipment. I have no idea why they would fly in the dark in winter. My headlamp would have been visible from Skykomish. One or two passenger jets flew by during or after and made the normal flight paths much higher and with normal sounds. It was obvious what they were. Also, a small aircraft flew by later and had normal looking lights, speed, flight path and engine noise. I can't explain what the two objects I saw were.
December 8, 2017 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Spokane Valley, WA
We suspect a sighting of the star, Sirius? PD
December 7, 2017 · 5:20 PM · LIGHT
Kent, WA
I was driving home from work going east on 212th St. As I was approaching 76th Ave S, I saw a bright star in the sky shining through the trees. I turned south on 76th Ave S and saw a small, fast moving airplane pass pretty quickly underneath the object. It was hovering very close, just to the west side of 76th Ave S. As I got closer, the object looked like a large airplane with a bright headlight, and a few lights on the bottom of it, but there were no flashing lights. It was not a helicopter, more like an airplane. It hovered there very close, perfectly still, as if it was watching traffic. I watched it as I drove south. Eventually I passed it and lost sight of it. It just kept hovering stationary there and never moved. I have seen this type of object far off in the distance before during this time of evening in Kent, but never this close.
December 5, 2017 · 7:30 PM · DISK
Edmonds, WA
My spouse and I were going on a walk with our dog around the track at Woodway Elementary. As we approached the rounded end of the track the UFO very slowly and very quietly - mostly silent - moved overhead going from North to South. It was what felt like only a stones throw away, maybe 50 ft above moving through low hanging fog. My spouse and I stopped walking and both agreed it was not just a plane leaving from Paine Field. It was dark and difficult to see the shape, but had red lights on the bottom in the shape of a circle, which also was a confirmation it was not a plane. I want to stress again, the speed at which the UFO was moving was extremely slow, and seemed to be only about 5 MPH or less as it went directly over us. Our dog sat down at our feet, and we all looked upwards. My spouse and I were both nervous, and held hands. As the craft moved South through the low hanging fog, the fog was very thick at one point almost completely covering the view from the lights. As it emerged from the other side of the fog into clear view again, it had shape-shifted into the shape and full appearance (lights and everything had changed) of a commercial airplane, was moving much faster, appeared much higher in the sky, and continued onwards South in a straight flight as if it were simply an airplane flying over from Paine Field. Over the years, I have shared this experience confidently with others who either agree it sounds like we had a close encounter with a UFO, but some non-believers think I’m eccentric and exaggerating. What I saw that night was very clearly not an airplane, and I knew immediately it was magical or otherworldly as it was so low, and so slow. I will remember it forever and hope to one day see something like it again.
November 27, 2017 · 1:30 AM · CHANGING
Spanaway, WA
So I went inside grabbed my binoculars saw it was odd then went back inside for my camera and new batteries. two pictures batteries die, replaced them took two more pictures and they die too. After a half hour and 3 sets of batteries I got twelve pictures. Very strange colors so bright and changing shape and subtle movements. I have lived near my local military bases forever no plane or craft looked like this. I watched it til it disappears around 2a.m. .
November 23, 2017 · 7:32 PM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, WA
Bright golden/yellow object, traveling from South west, heading North East..looked golden in color, no sound, maybe space debris? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2017 · 7:11 PM · OTHER
Deer Park, WA
It was in the East skies slowly moving toward the West skies. My 5 year old sister was with me. It sort of looked light the Little Dipper. May have been the constellation of Auriga. Little Dipper should not have been in the region at the time, though. We also heard buzzing noises. It was over a field, not the mountains. They're was an assortment of red, green and blue lights. Maybe a satellite, but doubt it. They just slowly moved across the sky. There was only one object. This is all of the information I was able to collect before it disappeared. It kind of faded away, not just disappeared. It freaked me out so I thought I ought to report it.
November 22, 2017 · 11:41 PM · SPHERE
Spanaway, WA
I was heading down 224th in Spanaway going from West to East at 11:41pm tonight, while talking on the phone to my husband. Out of nowhere, a bit to the left, there was a huge red ball falling at a high rate of speed. It looked like a huge red falling star, or a beyond huge flare. It wasn't blinking, or changing color, just huge and bright red sphere/ball falling from the sky heading East. It wasn't a plane, or helicopter, as there is a little airport close to where it was, but it was going beyond that and looked like it was going to land in the Classic Golf Course in Spanaway area, or a bit North of the golf course. I have never seen anything like it. It lit the sky like noting else I have ever seen. The car in front of me slowed way down and I was yelling at my husband to hurry up and go outside to look at it. Tried to find my phone, but couldn't in time.
November 18, 2017 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Olympia, WA
I just copied this directly from my Fbook Page: “I Just saw another UFO. It came very fast from 300 degrees WNW. I was a bright red light with a second that came on randomly. It came to a full bobbed left, right and backward then continued to a position almost directly above me then an abrupt stop again. Now a fast pulsing green light appeared on its left and the second red light came around from behind and dodged around a bit on the right side then disappeared behind it. There was a wispy cloud around it and I could see light reflecting from the cloud as if a search light was employed an moved as if it was looking for something around and above it. I didn’t observe the source of the light. But could see the beam coming from the top of the object. The object itself was obscured by the brightness of the red and green lights. It then staggered back toward where it came from and disappeared over the horizon. Again in 300 degrees WNW. My location was close to Briggs and Kettle View park and perhaps 5 miles from the local airp! ort. At first I believed it was going to turn and make an approach for landing and was just a high flying plane. I did notice it was absolutely silent but while it was above me I heard the roar of two jets on about after the second. Sounded like F15s. I have seen the Gov’s Lear jet come and go from this vantage point but never hear it power up or down unless it’s right above me. I grew up near Elmendorf AFB and that roar is unmistakable. my locale BTW is Olympia, WA. Did anyone else see this???by the time I got to my new Iphone and figured out the path to video capture it was over. I couldn’t take my eyes if it. I have seen thing in the sky a handful of times but this was by far the closest and most emotional for me. Please PM me if you saw this too.”
November 18, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Puyallup, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
November 15, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Enumclaw, WA
It was raining that night and I was at A 4 way stop behind some cars. Looked around an saw like seven lights in clearing of clouds. I went to park car so could take pictures seen four then. As I watched the first two the one on the left suddenly made A 90 degree turn in to the clouds. I got some pictures showing four lights white in color nothing blinking like planes have.On the way home I kept looking for them but did see them any more because of rain.
November 11, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
North Bend, WA
This was seen very clearly and was coming from the north, heading in a southwestern direction. What I saw was a very bright light moving, like if it was landing lights on an airliner, it was moving slow but bright, as I started to really look at it, it then started to move faster and started to change from 1 to 2 then 3 and finally 4 bright orbs or light's. These light's then changed direction from the first and what I would describe as the first or main light, they moved in a downward and away to the right (my right, the left of the main orb) but then they started to move in an upward direction. Unfortunately from my angle they flew behind a peak of a mountain range that is just north of my location. I never saw them come out the other side. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 10, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FORMATION
Frederickson, WA
Approaching from the east-heading west were (3)very bright red diamonds. the (2) in the rear appeared closer to each other than to the leading diamond. Inside the diamonds were a vertical and also a horizontal red light in a cross pattern. As the objects got closer, I opened my window and could hear nothing. I watched the objects pass over and thought it looked to be a triangular shape but it looked clear. For this reason I'm not sure if it was a "V" shaped object with the red triangles at all 3 points or if it was (3) seperate objects! I then went to a west window and watched the objects head towards McChord Air Force Base. (( We spoke at length with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite serious, and sober-minded.
November 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Port Orchard, WA
Large-ish flash of light burst across the skyline in front of us as we were driving home. It looked somewhat like a shooting star, but much larger and closer to the earth. It was kind of a blur, but definitely very strange looking.
November 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Port Orchard, WA
I saw one shape flash across the sky. It was white-gray in color and moved quickly. I'd say that it was at least four times the size of a plane and seemed to be rectangular, but it could've just been a fast disc form. My uncle also saw this oddity. He is currently working towards a degree in education, and I am a high school student.
November 1, 2017 · 7:15 AM · LIGHT
Chehalis, WA
I was walking my stepdaughter to the bus stop and she asked me to pick her up (she is 5) so I picked her up and we were looking up at the trees and the sky and we noticed a bright star next to two other stars (less bright) At this point the brighter star started to move slowly at fist and then more rapidly to the south. I didn't want to upset her so when she said "that star is moving" I said "yep it's probably a plane or a helicopter, knowing full well that it was neither. The object was silent. My step daughter said " I think it's a rocket ship" I simply smiled and said "maybe." I have seen these before in this area, but it is a little unsettling to know that whatever it is it makes stops in our neighborhood. It is almost as if it could see that we were looking at it because that is when it moved on. Recently, I have considered that some of these sightings may be drones. If it was a drone, which is unlikely given the power requirements of a modern drone, which would drain to quickly considering brightness of the light it was emitting. I do not think that if this was a drone it is one that is commercially available.