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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.
6,210 entries
September 16, 2016 · 8:30 PM
Ritzville, WA
Driving eastbound on I-5 near Ritzville, Wa. Saw a single white dot of light, similar to a satellite, moving south to north in an arc at about 30 degrees above the horizon. It was too fast to be a satellite or aircraft, but too slow to be a meteor. No flashing beacons, so not an aircraft. Looked similar to the ISS, but moved faster and south to north instead of West to East. Went out of sight below the horizon. Possibly space debris upon re-entry??? Possible satellite in polar orbit?? PD
September 15, 2016 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Spokane Valley, WA
Tried to call but I am having phone issues. Trying this. I/we saw an object, brilliant white light moving south to north, it appeared to be coming down but then seemed to change trajectory and move horizontally. No sound, no tail that we could see. It was within about a quarter mile from us, pretty low to the ground, just a few hundred feet. I was setting with my son talking on the front porch, the object went over the house tops, we moved to the street to follow it but lost it. By the time we got to the back deck, it was gone. Very strange. Probably a meteor, but? Was between 8:15 and about 8:30 tonight Spokane Valley, near Pines rd and Trent. I would love to know if anybody else saw this object.
September 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lakewood, WA
Saw a fireball/orb type in the sky. It was dark. Always check on the stars right before I go to bed. It was flying over Lakewood, JBLM. Pretty slow, but not too slow. Then it made a right angle turn (a "v" shape) and flew direction opposite, turned almost white then fizzled out. The atmosphere smelled like burning chemicals. It was bizarre. Not a plane (used to those in the flight path at JBLM), not a copter
September 10, 2016 · 12:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Elma, WA
On 9-10-16, apx. 12-1210pm, while on my daily walk, I saw a large, shimmering, fast moving, rectangular shaped object for 3 to 5 seconds. The sky was clear blue, cloudless, windless, sun up and shining. I was near Utility Lane, Elma, Washington, walking eastwards. Elevation is about 300 ft. The object appeared to head from Northerly direction east of ELMA to a Southerly direction towards Oakville, over the tops of hills that are about 500 ft in elevation. After about 3 seconds, it turned to a black color, and dropped in altitude, and became obscured by a closer hill. Never saw object again. Did not hear any sound. Unable to determine distance and size of object from my vantage point. Speed was significantly faster than a standard prop plane. Also, there were no noticeable aircraft flying even though there is a small airport nearby, and this is in a flight path for military aircraft as well as SEA-TAC International airport. I've seen many planes, ultralights and helicopters on a near daily basis in the area, over many years, and this was not one of them. The only reason for this report is the extremely bright shimmering, approaching a welding arc color in brightness. Difficult to look at. Even aluminum skinned planes aren't this bright! As a side note, I mentioned this to a friend in Oakville, WA. She was on the phone to a friend in California when she heard a sudden thundering sound that somewhat echoed, and was gone as fast as it started. She heard this about the same time as I witnessed the object in question, from my location about 15 miles away. It may or may not be related.
September 9, 2016 · 8:43 PM · FIREBALL
Battle Ground, WA
I am in the backyard, looking up in the sky, and this fireball like object shoots down. There was a sound. But it was huge!
September 9, 2016 · 4:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Tacoma, WA
4 reliable witnesses- My 2 parents, myself (school teacher), and my 4 year old grand-niece. Last night around 5:00 p.m. my mom discovered something in the clear bright blue sky. She told my dad and then they both called me to come outside to 'see what this strange object is'. My mom then said 'it's not a plane but we can't figure out what it is'. I went outside and it was hard to see although it did sparkle and seem to reflect either the sun or had it's own light source. We grabbed the binoculars. Looking through the binoculars I could see that it at sometimes looked just white, and at others it was like an orange fire ball. It wasn't moving quickly at all - seemingly staying in one spot for quite a while. My mom then noticed that there were two more! I was wondering if they were drones, skydivers, or something like that. At one point they looked like they were triangular in shape and a ball at others. They seemed also to be in a triangle formation- but since they were hard to see all the time we don't know if that was a pattern or not. I shot some footage with my dad's iphone- poor quality but you can see it on the iphone if someone knows how to 'zoom in' after the fact. We weren't sure how long they would be in the sky so although we wanted to look at it through a telescope we didn't want to take our eyes off it it for too long in order to track one down. In hindsight we should have called the news! Thought for SURE others would see it as well! Thought we could 'google it' the next day but there was no reports that we know of!
September 8, 2016 · 10:40 PM · DISK
Auburn, WA
I would like to begin that I am a former member of the us navy and have a very good eye for aircraft. Being in the seattle area I am able to identify every aircraft day or night by its light patterns. tonight I was in my work parking lot near the auburn park and ride. My attention was first brought to a craft which lights were similar to but not consistent with any craft I have seen hovering over the sky about in the airspace of fife, WA. After just a few moments of watching the solid red, blue, and white lights I noticed there were too many white lights and suddenly the red and white lights were eminating its source outward toward the sky around it. They were red and white lights almost pulsating and changing direction much like a a police car pulling over a car. Now I first tried to see whether it was in fact airborne as I live in the valley. I was hoping that perhaps it was high on a hill, however it was not. After about 5 mins of watching these pulsating lights (which as a result looked as though the craft was elongated or disk shaped) its colors changed to solid white and blinking red like an FAA approved aircraft. It began to move north west in the directing of the olympic pennisula rather that the sea tac airport as I would expect such an aircraft to do. Ill be honest in all of my days observing aircraft day, night, shipboard, on land, and at sea I was frightened and concerned for the aircraft I could see preparing to land at sea tac. It maintained the same altitude while it moved from its hovering position with a slight decent maybe 1 or two degrees which is consistent with a craft going further from view. It was dark, but I have never seen an aircraft emminate that many lights so irradically. I hope that you people can maybe try and find a logical explination for this. Yes I know it was dark, yes there is airtraffic for both lewis/mcchord and seatac however this wasnt any aircraft light pattern I have ever seen. I sho! uld have recorded it however the truth is the resolution would! nt have been ideal at the distance i was from the object. I wish I would have, but i was focused on gathering all information i could to reject the fact it was a ufo.
September 6, 2016 · 12:15 AM · FLASH
Pasco, WA
On September 6th, 2016 at 00:15 I was driving home on the I-86 from Pasco, WA towards Prosser, WA. I was traveling about 60 mph and I noticed an exceptionally large green light with a white haze around it appear in the sky. If I held my arm out fully extended and compared my fingers to the size of this light in the sky, it would be about 3 or 4 fingers in size. It did not seem to be one solid shape but rather a reflection of part of a shape. The floating green light sped downwards in the sky as soon as it appeared. It took four to five full seconds for it to disappear and it appeared to have descended into the city. It had no tail whatsoever. It did not appear anymore, and I was alone in my car at the moment of the sighting.
September 4, 2016 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Bellevue, WA
At 1 am, I saw a very fast white object traveling from the north to the south south east. The event lasted perhaps 2 to 3 seconds. The speed was very very fast and the distance was roughly 30% of the identifiable horizon from My location. The size of the object was roughly 2-3 mm at arms reach, and roughly 30 - 40 degrees above horizon From my location looking east. No noise .
September 3, 2016 · 6:13 PM · CHANGING
Pasco, WA
Riding in a car, I thought I saw a white helicopter coming our way-told the driver-she said it was a drone-I thought a plane-then we both watched it change form to real narrow-as a bright white light appeared as it took form of a space ship-the bright light changed to a narrow form and as it turned away heading away and to the right it disappeared. It seemed to have changed three times different shapes. It didn't go into any clouds-they were the other direction. By the time I decided to take a picture it was long gone. This was during the day time. Sun still out. Never saw any thing like it before. The night before a friend came over saying he just saw a UFO in the dark night hours. So odd that I saw one that next day.
September 3, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Bainbridge Island, WA
Pulled into my driveway and last of afternoon sun hit a plane flying up in sky - caught my eye. As I looked at plane I notice four round white objects way up in sky and wondered what they were. They seemed to move into a formation of a Z and held their position. Then one white orb starts moving up and looks like it's going to hit one of the orbs and then moves and hovers over the top. Either a cloud passed by or they recessed into clouds then next thing there are three in a vertical row with one off to the left. Shortly thereafter,again, a cloud either passes or they somehow recess and next there's only three and they haveformed an upside down V. I watched until they disapeared and did not come back. I was freaking out.
August 31, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Malo, WA
My mother and I were out enjoying the night on the deck. Spotted a few meteors, played with Google sky map nothing particularly out of the ordinary happening. I was following a line of dense stars, I assume is the milky way, when a saw the light. It was just a dot same size and color as a star but slightly less bright. It emitted a steady glow with no flashing or indications that it was manmade aircraft. The "star" was drifting to the south east following a straight path faster than a plane. Speed estimate around cruising fighter jet speed. The craft continued this path for about 5 mins until it began to flicker. I picked the craft back up not far from where it faded it became slightly brighter after this and shot like a laser beam for just a second to the west and was gone.
August 29, 2016 · 9:28 PM · TRIANGLE
Arlington, WA
Two of us went outside at night to walk the dog. I was noticing the stars and that one in the clear western sky looked "odd". I kept looking at it and noticed it appeared to be not one light, but multiple lights, at least 3 lights and perhaps 4. All together they were in the shape of a perfect triangle, with the point toward us consisting of perhaps 2 lights close together. The lights were colored yellowish. The UFO was approximately due west from us, elevated approx. 40 degrees up from the horizon. My best guess is that its altitude was perhaps 3500-5000 feet above ground, and maybe 4 miles from our position. "It" seemed to appear to be moving very very slowly to the east, almost as if in a slow moving hover. No sound could be discerned from it. We could see only lights. My wife took some pics with her cell phone but they just show a faint blur (pixelated) area. After about 5 minutes of looking, we went back to our apartment to get my monocular, binoculars, camera, and to make a quick report on Facebook, in the hopes that others saw it too. That took about 3-4 minutes, then we went back outside to the place we had observed the UFO. We could not locate the UFO again and noted that the sky appeared to be hazy now and clouding up some. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 25, 2016 · 2:20 AM · FIREBALL
Lakewood, WA
Third time I've seen this. This time strange because they were red at first than turned white toward fort Lewis then we're gone. Third time I saw them what's stranger. Its like they know when I'm going to be looking and in a short while there here over my home.
August 24, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
SeaTac Airport, WA
At first I thought it was just someone playing with a drone because it was moving around all over the place, but it kept moving in a relatively straight line until it was out of view. The object had a faint ring around it and it stayed about the same size the entire time it was visible.
August 19, 2016 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Aberdeen Gardens, WA
The star/planet and the ufo both turned red. The UFO then traveled back to the left and stopped above the trees hovering. Another came and trekked toward the the Big Dipper. The triangle completely changed formation. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2016 · 11:40 PM · FLASH
Bremerton, WA
My boyfriend and I was driving home from work and we saw what looked like something Falling at full speed from the sky. It only lasted for about 3 seconds. It looked to close too be a shooting star, and it was falling straight down. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 16, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Snohomish, WA
Travelling home from work. Husband driving. Saw cigar-shaped object silvery-white with two vertical red bands on each end. Next to the cigar was a smaller white triangle slowly spinning, also white/silvery. Too far to see details. Watched as triangle continued to spin, got smaller and disappeared. Cigar-shaped object went behind houses. Not sure what they were. This is the first time I've ever seen anything I couldn't identify. It's the slowly spinning triangle that makes the least amount of sense.
August 14, 2016 · 7:45 PM · OTHER
Sedro Woolley, WA
Walking at Northern State Rec area and just caught a dark transparent blob come over the mountains to the southeast. There was one small one racing ahead of a huge one. There some white fluffy clouds slowing moving. This looked almost liquid. Our reaction was "what the hell was that?"
August 14, 2016 · 6:00 PM · EGG
Vancouver, WA
Flew north then disappeared. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2016 · 5:00 PM · DISK
Allyn, WA
15 Aug 2016. 1700Hrs (approx.) Allyn, WA, Observation. 1. Beginning my observation facing west at about a 75 degree high from my patio deck. 2. Object was traveling in a Northerly direction, from my left to my right. 3. Duration of observation about 10 – 15 seconds. 4. Once object passed by my front, heading northerly at reaching about a 65 – 70 degree angle, to my right it took an abrupt turn to its left, it then zigged right and then zagged to the left once in each direction, then continued heading west and sped off in the westerly direction. 5. Not knowing the size of the object, altitude was difficult to determine, as no other measureable objects nearby gave any proportion. I will say the object was at an altitude of least 10,000 to 15,000 feet AGL. Higher is possible, however the object’s shape was still determinable. 6. My wife was pruning small tree limbs when she observed the object. She asked me if it was a (Birthday type) balloon floating? a I looked up and tried to see it as a balloon, but its trajectory and speed were too straight and fast to be a balloon. b. I then quickly thought it might be a satellite or space junk, although still day light, I thought it possible however, when it turned a 90 degree left and sped west, I knew it was not a satellite. 7. The weather was clear and sunny, with no clouds in the area in mention. 8. The object’s color was a bare metal and colorless. 9. I did not observe any wings or empennage. Its shape was circular or round similar to a balloon. 10. It emitted no sound that I could hear and left no con-trail.
August 14, 2016 · 1:57 AM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
I was doing a late night stroll on 8/14/16. I noticed off to my left an orange/red ball of light in the sky. It was well above the tree and house lines on the opposite side of the street and there was nothing to obstruct my view. It was 1:56am and I was looking in southern direction. Towards Portland, Oregon, from Vancouver, Washington. Right away, I noticed something different about the light. It was it's glow. It was like a light orange at the center and grew a bit darker moving from center to outer edges. Where it was more of a redish color. There was also a blinking, or some kind of flashing. It was rhythmic in sequence, but it was of the same color as the orb. The light did not illuminate any distinguishable features. The light was large. Imagine holding a match head at arms length, that's about how big it looked to me. I would roughly estimate it being 5 to 10 miles away. It was moving in a flat, arc like pattern. From the west to east, then finally heading south. After it was heading what looked like south, for about 3 seconds. It grew dim real fast then blinked out of existence. For a moment, I thought it might be a plane. Because of its flight pattern and the fact that the Portland airport lies just south west from where I saw it. Yet, there were no other light markers on it. No green and white flashing lights. No landing/takeoff lights or the tall tale pattern of said lights. This glowin, orange ball had no defining mark or any light source. At 1:57 I texted my friend to see if he was awake....nope. At 1:59 it re appeared. This time I had phone in hand and got some video. During it's second run. The light just appeared out of nowhere. It moved from east to west. Then quickly back in the easterly direction. Where it stopped in mid flight and mid air. It danced around a bit. It popped up, then down, then it jutted to the west and slowly moved back to its original spot. At this time, it looked as though it was moving south again. Because after a couple of seconds it dimmed in brightness rather fast, then blinked 2 or 3 times like before and gone! There was no chance of it being a helicopter. Like the plane, there were no external light markers. It moved to fast and too random for it to be a helicopter. Not to mention the whole orange glow as well as it appearing out of nowhere. I have also given thought to its departures. With the whole light dimming, then blinking out. No plane or helicopter could move so fast that you would loose sight of it. Especially one as bright as the ball I witnessed. It would take minutes for it to gradually fade from sgh. This ball went from a big, bright, glowing orb to nothing in 3 seconds.....two times did this. Unfortunately, like all lowlight/nighttime video, it came out not showing much. You can see what looks like a star, a white dwarf. The camera could not pick up its orange glow and without it, it was considerably smaller. Yet, it was much larger and brighter than the North Star. But the camera was having a hard time focusing on it. Something else I noticed, it was the difference in shape between what I saw with the naked eye and what the camera was able to detect. With the naked eye, the object (or shape of the glow if you will) was not necessarily round. It was more cylindrical, a shape more like a soda can. There was no source to the glow, nor did that glow cast anylight upon itself. That being said, any defining details like silhouette, shadows, outlines, etc; were not present. I have no explanation for the shape it had with what I just said. It just had one. Now, looking through the eye of a camera, you see a perfectly round object. It was bright white in color. Not pure white, but a few shades off. It also flickered like a star. I can't be sure what was causing the flicker. Sometimes it looked like something on the object was pulsating. Sometimes it looked like it could be distortion caused by heat or gasses in the atmosphere. I have described this sighting the best I could. I have mulled over it for a bit , let it sink into my brain, chewed on it for a while and analyzed it from every angle. I tend to believe nothing of what I hear and only half of what I see. I have tried to debunk the video the best I could. I have ruled out helicopters and any fixed wing aircraft. A drone of sorts is possible, but unlikely. I hope this information is helpful. Because I'm only a skeptic when it comes to finding the truth.
August 12, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Lake Roesiger, WA
My girlfriend and I walked outside at approximately 9:00PM. We looked up towards the sky SE (we were looking for the Perseid meteor shower); shortly we noticed what looked like a big round orb in the sky. We watched it silently float along as it changed its course at least 3 times. We have seen this twice before in the same location. It looks like a big floating ball of light. In WWII there were a lot of these sightings, commonly referred to as "foo fighters", this is what I believe we keep seeing. The orb seemed to be intelligently operated as it shifted its course many times in under a minute. For the record, I have seen countless things in the sky and am familiar with how they look; shooting stars, satellites, airplanes, helicopters, drones, etc., this was a UFO.
August 12, 2016 · 1:00 PM · CIRCLE
Yakima, WA
Looking North over there army base Yakima, Washington, there is four or five lights above the sky, moving very slowly.