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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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August 12, 2016 · 2:45 AM · CHEVRON
Tacoma, WA
While watching the night sky looking for shooting stars from the Perseid meteor shower, my wife and simultaneously observed 5 lights in a slight chevron formation moving quickly from NW to SE. The lights moved in exact unison like a single aircraft but the chevron was very large and there was no audible noise. We live in the flight path of both SEA-TAC airport and McChord Air Force Base so we see multiple aircraft every day and night flying overhead. This group of lights did not resemble any aircraft we have ever seen nor did it move at the speed of any aircraft we have seen in this area. The lights at no time left a streak and did not blink or twinkle at any time. They remained constant and solid until out of view. We cannot say whether it was a single aircraft with five lights or if the chevron was five separate objects moving in unison. However, the five lights never moved closer or further apart as they moved across the sky. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD
August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Oysterville, WA
I had just gotten home and it was a very clear night. There are no streetlights here and so the stars are quite clear. I looked up at the sky and saw a (silent) ball of light traveling steadily from West to East. (Coming from near the Pacific Ocean and heading towards Willapa Bay.) It had no colored lights like a plane. It had no flashing lights. It was just a ball of white light. When it was over Willapa Bay, I witnessed the light of the object turn completely dim until it faded out from white, to an orange glow to nothing. That was all that I saw basically. It appeared large and to be flying relatively low in the night sky. I took some video of the object on my iPhone, but it came out shakey and blurry. Basically nothing compared to what I saw.
August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
SeaTac, WA
I work at SeaTac Airport and was working on a jetbridge around 10 pm. While I was looking skyward to see some equipment, a moving object caught my eye. It appeared to be a flying wing marked on the underside with 4 sharp-angled chevrons with contrasting shading. It was a VERY dark object, with no illumination at all. It was travelling due south at a consistent speed. There appeared to be no organic ancillary movement like a bird would demonstrate; it definitely moved with mechanical fluidity. I could not determine with any certainty the size, elevation, or speed of the object due to the lack of visual scale cues. It was in my field of vision for only about 10 or 15 seconds after which I could no longer detect it in the dark sky. Most strange was the fact that it was directly above SeaTac International Airport. Observer is a 40 year old male in good health.
August 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Curlew, WA
This is more of an explanation of what was seen than a ufo sighting. We were at Curlew Lake for a week. We were watching the Perseid meteors, from 22:00 to 23:30. I first noticed a chevron of 5 red blinking lights about 22:00. They were traveling from east to west over Curlew Lake, 9 miles north of Republic, WA. I called my son, wife and Mom out on the deck to look. The continued to fly directly over head. It was a flight of F-18 Super Hornets that had been refueling practicing over northern Washington for the whole day! Head their engines, they were night refueling. I think this might explain any chevron reports from probably the northern half of Washington for that night.
August 11, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Naches, WA
Taking trash out I noticed a army helicopter flying over I like to watch them when they fly over but this time two orbs were flying in front of it. chopper was keeping pace with them didn't seem like they were flying very fast and fairly low maybe 1500ft usally there is more then one chopper going to ft lewis it was traveling more south then normal do they use drones out in front? if they do, that's probably what I saw that's about it
August 11, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OVAL
Kennewick, WA
UFO report of sighting 8-11-16. The purpose of this report is to identify objects that I have seen through my telescope, and not to claim a sighting of extraterrestrial aircraft. On August 11, 2016, at 8:10 pm I observed a bright spot in the sky with my naked eye that was obviously not a star as the stars were not visible this early in the evening. After a few minutes I realized what I was seeing was not something I have seen before so I shot a picture and a short video with my cell phone and got my wife to come outside to have a look also. Using a 7x35 binocular I was able to resolve the object into a disc shape but no other detail was visible. I set up my C-8 Celestron telescope to have a better look. The object resolved into an orange color object that was oval shape, had a flashing light on top, was rimmed with what appeared to be many lights around the circumference of the bottom side that were dimmer than the light on top, and seemed translucent like a fabric. After a few minutes of observing, I attached a video camera to the telescope and recorded a few minutes of video in two recordings. After bumping my telescope I was not able to find the object again as it was getting farther away and dimmer during the observation. The video capture settings, frame rate at .844 per sec. is to slow to stop movement so there is some motion blur in the images but enough detail to see structure of the object. The orange color had faded to whitish purple by the time I got the video recording. I do not see the lights that were around the bottom of the object in the video image that I saw through the eyepiece of the telescope. The sighting lasted from 8:10 pm to 8:53 pm about 43 minutes until I lost sight of it. The direction of travel was southeast, and the object got smaller by about half and was viewed by me and my wife, before I went to video capture. My telescope was hastily set up and there were no stars to polar align the mount so the tracking is off a little with respect to the stars. The tracking motor is running at sidereal rate and I used the manual slow motion controls to center the object when it ran out of the field of view. I have been using this telescope for 18 years and this camera for only a few times. I am experienced with deep sky astrophotography with several camera types and several telescope types for 17 years. Technical information: Telescope, Celestron C-8 telescope, 200mm mirror f/10 with f/3.3 focal reducer. Calculated focal length 686 mm. Camera, ZWO ASI 120 MC color video camera with 3.5 x 3.5 micron pixels, 1280x960 image size. Capture at .844 frames per second. All technical data is available. Approximately 420 frames of data available with object visible. Two video files 903 MB and 893 MB. Three still captures from video. Approximate RA 21h 46m, DEC 9 deg..
August 11, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Chelan, WA
Right before sunset, we were doing s'mores at a resort in Lake Chelan, WA and we noticed "the first star". I had my binoculars and noted it was was a white doughnut-shaped object. I thought it might be a balloon, bit it remained perfectly still, not moving with thin clouds or the moon. As the sun set, the color of the doughnut changed orange, then red (suggesting reflected light from the sun) I would have chalked it up to being a balloon, except for how still it remained for a rather long duration. My whole family looked at the object through binoculars, and could see it with naked eye as a "star," until the sun set, then it got dimmer, and could only be seen as it changed color with the sun's rays through binoculars. At least 2 passenger jets passed by in the near vicinity, but I could not tell relative altitudes.
August 10, 2016 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Colfax, WA
I came over a rolling hill with a few trees directly ahead of me and I saw a bright flashing light in the shape of a circle just beyond the trees and as the road curved a noticed that the bright flashing light did not go as the road did it stayed in the pretty much the same spot through my windshield even though I had changed direction maybe 30 degrees. That's when I knew that it was moving at the same speed as my truck. And then it was on the other side of my truck almost as if it was pinned on me, for the next few minutes it traveled through rolling hills switching sides being in the front and then gone and then I'm the rear. It was a bright white light that flashed in roughly 1-2 seconds segments. And it appeared to be only one, but I took a video through my side mirror and you can see the flashes moving in a direction and then the next flash it was well behind that, faster than any man made machine could possibly have done. This occurrence also happened after I was at a rest stop and felt my uhaul truck swaying and I look at the long grass and trees and there was minimal wind it would take gusts to rock it the way it was rocking while the truck was not turned on. I didn't think anything of it, but I felt that there was someone in the back and went an opened the back gate and even asked whoever was in there to please get out that it was not safe to ride with all the furniture. Saw and heard nothing. Got back into the cab and after a short time the rocking proceeded. I banged on the back of the truck and said at least ride up here with me I have potato chips I can share, and to keep me company, as I was just joking not thinking anyone was in there but to take my mind off of it cuz it was making me paranoid. Well, after the strange encounter with the flashing light that followed me for a good 5-10 miles it slowly disappeared into the distance very high in the air. I got out to check the back again and the lights on the outside ! of the truck were flickering, just enough for me to notice as ! the were not flickering before the flashing unknown object laid before me. I fell asleep in the truck an hour down the road and proceeded to call it hallucinations for the exhaustion from moving all day and driving all night. That evening after work, I was telling someone about my hallucinations and how real it seemed and how paranoia can really mess with someone's head, when I remembered I took 2 short videos of the occurrence in a quick manner and had not looked at them yet. Expecting not to see anything, it terrified me to see the light as I had seen it the night before on that very dark country highway leading into Colfax, Washington, and I even called my wife during the whole thing to tell her how scared I was and asking why is this light following me. She even thought I was just tripping. Well after I saw the videos I have never been more scared to be outside after dark, it really puzzled me on how real this was and how much it seemed to be a fantasy in a made up story book. It was a moment I will not forget soon, and I went from riding a fence in existence of aliens, to full blown belief of them, and I was better off not knowing or seeing the event from that night.
August 8, 2016 · 1:30 AM · DISK
Longview, WA
On August 08, 2016, at 1:30 am, I witnessed a white saucer shaped craft, with a continuous row of square black windows that ran the circumference of the craft. At the closest point of my viewing field the vehicle, was only about 150 yards of my location, and 200-250 feet above ground, clearing a large group of trees and a cell phone tower to my West. I would put this craft as being 70-90 feet across. The craft approached my position with a moderate rate of speed, from the WNW, to within 150 yards of my location. At that point, it turned abruptly South and flew away at a high rate speed over a factory and across the Columbia River into Oregon. During this entire encounter there was no sound whatsoever from the craft or from the atmosphere being disturbed by its arrival or departure. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and eloquent. However, his telephone now does not accepte calls, which is a warning sign as to the authenticity of the original report, we believe. PD
August 7, 2016 · 12:30 AM · CIGAR
Seattle, WA
A formation of white circular lights in a straight line. Traveled from west to east. While speeding across the sky, the “head” of the formation quickly shifted left then right, then back to straight. Continued straight until it disappeared. It was faster than a plane, slower than meteor. It made no noise. A group of 6 adults all saw the same thing.
August 5, 2016 · 10:35 PM · LIGHT
Kenmore, WA
I saw a small white moving light that was the size of a star for about 10 seconds, at the end it was beginning to shrink but still shining brightly, before going past a building I was near. When I got past the building, it was gone. My phone wouldnt have been able to get a good picture. ISS @ 22:25 hrs.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
August 3, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Snoqualmie, WA
My son and I saw a star sized object moving from north to northwest at a pace similar to seeing a satellite, but the object was not as high in the sky as a satellite would be. The object approached the area of the sky that contained Orion's Belt, then stopped and became extremely bright and seemed to increase size by many times. The light was bright for several seconds and then gradually faded off and the object began to move northwest again. After about 10 seconds the craft lost most of its light and started heading north until we could no longer see it.
August 2, 2016 · 1:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Puyallup, WA
1:15 A.M. August 2, 2016, I was standing in the backyard of my home. I was looking nearly straight up and facing the northeast watching the stars, looking for satellites and early Perseids Meteors. I had actually seen two meteors and about 5 satellites. I had been outside for about an hour, when I got my first really good view of a phenomenon that I have seen on three previous occasions. I was looking into a clear sky with no obstructions, the same as the three previous times, when I saw what looked like a flash bulb going off in the sky above me. This is the first time that I have seen this clearly. On the previous occasions, I only saw it out of the corner of my eye and never got a clear view. In fact, I have seen it so infrequently that I had figured that it must be a trick of the light. I starts in a black, starless area of the sky (about 20 degrees east of Alkaid at the end of the big dipper) a small pin prick of light, like a star, suddenly appears and then seems to explode with a flash that leaves a very faint, momentary, aura around it. The very bright flash expands out to three or four times the diameter of a star and then it fades to black. It’s almost as if a meteor were coming straight down towards the earth and then quickly burns up in the atmosphere while being directly in line with my line of sight. Not sure if that’s possible but that seems like a pretty good description of it, except that the color isn’t quite right, it has an almost blue-white hue to it and not the more yellow-white of a shooting star. More of a cool color look. I have seen plenty of satellites that are rotating in and out of reflection and I am 100% sure that it was not a satellite. It may have a perfectly simple explanation, but I haven’t seen anything on the internet that ! describes exactly what I saw. I guess it’s not really a UFO, by the strict definition but it is an unusual phenomenon that I can’t explain. Maybe you folks have an answer for me.
August 1, 2016 · 9:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Shoreline, WA
The craft was heading south and slowly disappeared out of our skies (my sight) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 29, 2016 · 10:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Reardan, WA
About 10:35 pm, on the night of July 29, 2016, I stepped out into my yard with the dog. I moved around the corner of the house into darkness to look at stars. A few seconds after I began skygazing, a bright metallic golden wedge shape appeared from the west, moving very fast. It struck me immediately how large and well defined the shape was, and how fast it was moving, at about the apparent speed of some faster meteors. At about the time it reached due south of me, it winked totally out as if it were reflecting the sun which had set a couple of hours prior. It seemed to be traveling due west to east and was 10 to 15 degrees below zenith. When it winked out, it was gone - it apparently had no lights, and made no noise and was not on fire nor falling apart. A jet was traveling to the northwest at high altitude in the same area of the sky, its lights blinking regularly, but I couldn't see any sun reflecting from it. The jet moved much much more slowly th! an did the UFO, on the order of 20 times more slowly. I am at 47.9 lat x 117.7 long. What was it? Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We would like to communicate with the witness, but have no means of contacting him/her. PD
July 29, 2016 · 10:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Bainbridge Island, WA
A triangle shaped object flew at a high rate of speed thru the sky. No sound. It stopped abruptly and descended straight down until out of sight. This took about 4 minutes.
July 28, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
They are still moving. Different directions. Coming from different ways. They look like moving stars.
July 28, 2016 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Yakima, WA
Witnessed at around 1 am on July 28th, 2016, in Yakima, Washington. As I work nights, I walk my German Shepherd on my nights off, and we usually go for a 5-mile walk. The night is clear, the stars are out and the moon is just rising. We were walking on a section of the road that curves up around a church and housing area and is higher than the surrounding area, which gives a good partial view of the surrounding city, of which in the day time also gives a great view of Mount Adams. My GSD stopped to sniff the air when there was a sudden and very bright flash of light to the South West of us. For a brief second, I could actually see Mount Adams in the distance. Then it was gone. Right after that, there was a very loud boom sound, not the sound of thunder, but more a sonic boom. I stood there for a couple of minutes watching the area where the light flash had happened but saw nothing else other than the stars in the sky. It was most certainly not heat lighting, of which I am very familiar with in that it happens a great deal in the area in the summer time, and I have spent a great many hours outside at night watching it flash along the surrounding mountains.
July 26, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Bellingham, WA
I just took my dog out for his last bathroom run, when I noticed a light that, at first, I thought it was a satellite. It was much brighter than a satellite, and as I stared at it passing across the night sky in a mostly easterly direction, I realized the altitude was much lower than what a satellite would be at. It also seemed it wasn't maintaining a constant speed, sort of slowing a bit and then resuming an otherwise constant speed. I found it so unusual, I ran out to the end of our dock on Lake Whatcom and watched it eventually disappear over the distant mountains. Never seen anything like it before. Wondering if anyone else noticed this. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2016 · 11:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Vantage, WA
My friend and I were driving eastbound, after waiting for an accident to be cleared off I-90, we both had a memory laps of roughly 15-45 minutes and had feelings of "being in a trance or dream state," staring at the moon and seeing faces, feeling paralyzed. The last thing I remember was the giant red metal train bridge you pass under just before Vantage, we have no recollection of crossing the Columbia River on the bridge or seeing the wild horses monument or George, WA. We both "came too" sometime after George, WA, and being confused as neither of us could remember anything about crossing the bridge. The moon was 3 times its normal size and bright red, I couldn't stop starring at it and it made me uneasy I kept seeing screaming faces in it. It felt like I was dead or dreaming, this morning my friend called me and talked more about how confusing everything was and he asked me to check if there was blood on my pillow as he experienced nose bleeding for the! first time ever.....there was blood on my pillow. I am a reasonable guy and honestly never buy into anything like this and if my friend had not experienced the same thing I would not have thought anything of it, if anyone saw anything in WA last night please write an article.
July 24, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Port Townsend, WA
I kept watching because it seems to me to be unexplainable. Going to look again this evening. I did well in astronomy at University so I know the difference between an airplane and a meteorite.
July 24, 2016 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Issaquah, WA
I witnessed a distant point of weak light with binoculars, roughly toward the West. It moved in a straight line, appearing to descend, then made a crazy round turn to the North which made no sense, then vanished. No aircraft could ever perform this maneuver. It was moving at an incredible speed. No sound emitted. I am an Army vet, experienced in astronomy, military aircraft with a scientific background. It was not a satellite. There didn't appear to be any flare.
July 23, 2016 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Mount Vernon, WA
I was sitting with my wife on our back porch, looking at stars and planets. I was telling her about a triangle shaped craft I saw about two years ago. I said, "I was looking at a spot between some stars, when--" and at that moment, a shimmering craft appeared as two points of light and seemed to glide across the sky, much faster than any aircraft I know of. I said, "Do you see that?" She did not see it. It very quickly moved toward the northeast, when I said, out loud, "Wait, she doesn't see you, come back." At that point, the craft stopped moving, shimmered again, and was not visible. This is nearly identical to the sighting I had two years ago, except the craft had three points of light then, moved toward the southeast, and did the same stop and vanish when I said "I see you." My wife was inside the house that time. This time she was with me, but she did not see the craft. It was probably only visible for 10 seconds or less. We stopped talking and looked up at the area where the craft had appeared. It felt like about 5-10 minutes passed, and then I asked her why she thought it only appeared to me. She was uncomfortable talking about it outside, so we went inside. At that point we looked at the clock, and we had been outside for about 30 minutes. We both experienced the time as roughly 15 minutes, maybe 20 at most, but 30 minutes had elapsed according to my cell phone and the clock inside. Our dog reacted as if we had been outside for a long time, barking the way he does when we get home after being gone for awhile.
July 23, 2016 · 5:50 PM · CHANGING
Ritzville, WA
On Saturday July 23, 2016, 5:50 pm, my fiancé, my niece, and myself were heading home from downtown Ritzville. Heading north on Columbia Ave., we just passed Alder Ave. My niece had looked up to the right (east) and asked what that was in the sky. I looked up and didn’t see anything at first. As we approached Birch Ave. I saw something moving in the sky. My fiancé parked the car at the apartments on east Birch and I grabbed my phone. I aimed it towards the silvery white shape I saw in the sky to the east. It had a weird shape to it almost reminding me of a cigar pointed at one end and flat at the other. I snapped 2 pictures at approximately 5:52. I looked at pictures and didn’t see anything at first. As I zoomed in I found the items I was looking for. It looks different in the picture almost block shaped. This shape was moving in a south direction first. It started to turn to a south west and finally west. As I saw it turning I noticed another craft in the air with some sort of trail behind it. It was silver in color and had a similar shape but heading north. As I grabbed my phone to capture the north bound one it vanished. I looked west saw the craft and then it was gone. I asked my niece what she had seen and she tried to explain it looked like a sideways cross but then it changed shape. I hadn’t mentioned to her what I saw and she described a cigar type shape with a piece coming down from underneath. I had her draw it for me.