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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 23, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Maple valley, WA
I just got off of work about 12ish and as soon as I got home I noticed a repetitive flash that was lighting up the whole sky . It only last on second but changed brightness about 6 times per second if not more . It was completey silent an didn't stop until about 3 . I starting search for answers an ended up driving on black diamond high way. Out of no where a ring of fire apeared in the air this also was on a glimps of a eye but so bright an impossible to miss . I was very glad that there was 4 other people with me that witnessed the same thing . Honestly you will never know the truth an this is the last time I speak I just seen a post before mine that saw the same silent electric high voltage of some sort .
July 22, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Walla Walla, WA
After about 15 minutes it started descending rapidly towards the ground and disappeared. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) it was shaped like a cigar and it was white and it almost looked like it was glowing. that was it. and no there is not i was staying at a winery with my family in washington. i did not catch my mistake before i submitted the form. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have changed the state of the sighting, to reflect a sighting in Walla Walla, Washington. We are uncertain as to whether this is a serious report, or note. PD
July 22, 2016 · 3:00 PM
Seattle, WA
It was so bright, I jumped back and covered my eyes, it startled me so badly, I looked outside to see if there was a vehicle outside, there was nothing. It was pitch black out, so I turned to walk back into the other room and it happened again! I jumped back and swore because it scared me so badly. The amazing thing is that the strands of light were so intense, bright, and so horizontally thick and distinct. Never have I seen anything like this before. I felt compelled for weeks to see if anyone else saw this phenomenon. Finally wanted to report what I saw, through some venue, and thus the reason for my post. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 22, 2016 · 12:10 AM
Renton, WA
While driving downhill, I suddenly saw flash of light in the sky out of nowhere. It was extremely bright and it seemed to be very vast. It startled me, as I instantly thought that only a nuclear bomb could cause such a flash over the city. I can only explain the flash as it being like a giant LED flashlight, big enough to light up the entire sky. It was like the giant flashlight, flicked on and off in a split second. Being curious as to what this flash was, I continued looking up vertically while trying to safely drive. I could see airplanes in the air and a big full moon, I'm sure it wasn't lightning... It wasn't overcast nor was there any rain at all and the flash was silent.... No thunder. It definitely didn't look like lighting or natural phenomenon I've ever seen. I went home and put on and browsed all the national and local cable news stations. I'm sure someone else saw this. I thought that there might be an explanation, but couldn't find any information. A couple hours later at about 3:40 am I went back out to my car to grab something before bed, and again, I saw another big bright quiet flash. I'm sure a surveillance camera caught this somewhere or that someone else in the area I live saw this. I will be checking back to see if anyone else has a post on this subject. This an experience I will never forget.
July 22, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
At around midnight, I started watching a movie on television. For the record, the movie was "Straight Out Of Compton", which I mention only to disway any notions that I was watching anything related to the paranormal and my imagination got the best of me; thoughts of UFOs were very far from my mind! Just to the left of my TV is a large, south-facing window that I keep open this time of year. While there are a few tall but thin trees across the street from me, I have a pretty good view of the sky from where I was sitting (on my couch). There was not a cloud in the sky this night. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what I initially thought was a distant lightning strike as the entire skyline lit up enough to put the trees in silhouette. But.... no thunder... I dismissed it, believing perhaps a distant power transformer had popped...even though the hue of the light was markedly blue. Ten to fifteen minutes later, it happened again. At this point i! dismissed it as some kind of visual distortion... it was late...perhaps i had my eyes open too long and glanced at the window and imagined the flash...and as I was looking out the window, it happened again. My cat started going berserk about this time. Normally, he is lazy. Suddenly he was all about chasing invisible things, and meowing incessently. This went on until approximately 3am, at seemingly irregular intervals. I finally decided to get up, go outside with ALL of my house lights off and look to the sky to make sure I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing. I noticed that the dogs in the neighborhood were quite vocal, which is unusual. I was nearly finished with my cigarette, when *FLASH* it happened again. I immediately activated the stop watch on my iphone to see if in fact the flashes were occurring at regular intervals or not...and, of course, not a single other flash happened after that... I did not see any *craft* per se, but this was bizarre... and after reading the post from thie person in Renton on the same night at the same time, I felt highly compelled to let them know that they were not alone in seeing this strangeness. Renton is to the south of me, so it stands to reason we saw the same phenomenon.
July 21, 2016 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Richland, WA
Was woken up by my dogs barking and then heard the jets. Did not go outside to look. Not sure if it was some sort of military training or we were under attack and the jets were chasing something?
July 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Lakewood, WA
It was exactly 10 p.m. I saw 3 glowing lights red and green color it went down and then shot up and to the left and then straight out and disappeared like it hit warp speed. So basically the red and green lights went down and then when it went to the left and out it hit warp speed and made a bright white light It lasted about 10-15 seconds. I was standing on my back porch letting my dog out who before I let him out was acting oddly. And I look up and noticed that the sky looked oddly light blue, and that's when I saw it. I know it wasn't a satellite and I know it wasn't an airplane I've never seen anything like that before.
July 19, 2016 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
I was standing at my kitchen sink just after midnight. When a light appeared due east of Silver Lake over the valley between Snohomish & Clearview. It moved silently to the southwest. No strobes or navigational lights were observed. It was a windless night & the object moved at about the speed of a small airplane, except it was changing altitude very slightly up & down. I lost sight of it behind some trees. A minute or so later another one appeared & traveled in an identical manner. By the time the third one appeared I had gone outside to observe the same behavior. The lights had a slight orange hue.
July 16, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Vancouver, WA
It was silver colored moving very slow. It could have been a blimp, but too far away. I've never seen a blimp here that's why i wondered. i,ve always been interested when young in ariel,wash walking up n dubois road my cousins and i all seen an object zigzag entire sky and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 13, 2016 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Kennewick, WA
9:50 PM After coming home from a walk, the two of us noticed an object in the sky. There were 3 large, fireball-like orbs smoothly traveling their own curved routes, one after the other. They were a bright, rich orange, colored and glowing like fire. The first moved towards us, then turned in path and continued to the left of us (North), dimming increasingly but maintaining its size, pulsating, and controlled demeanor. About 3 minutes after we first spotted it, right as we were struggling to keep track of it in the distance, the second appeared from the same place the first had in the sky. It seemed to move slightly closer towards us, turned at the same point as the first, and followed in the same direction but in a tighter arc. When what seemed to be the exact same amount of time in between the first and second sightings had passed, and it was just getting out of sight, the third appeared. After turning, this one made the widest arc and came closest to us by doing so. Despite standing in the middle of a parking lot, staring up at the sky, commenting, and recording the encounter, it was as if all pedestrian traffic resumed minutes after the third had passed, and the one person who did walk right by us in the middle of the event didn’t seem to notice either us or the sky. There were no clouds and stars were out.
July 13, 2016 · 1:30 AM · OVAL
Camano Island, WA
Random appearing spacecraft about mid Camano Island remains stationary for a few hours with blue, green, red and yellow lights projecting in patterns. Moves very very slowly to the right from my view facing north.
July 11, 2016 · 4:18 PM · TRIANGLE
Spokane, WA
It was a fairly clear day in Spokane, me and my parents were on a walk with our dog while I was visiting and we heard a noise coming from the sky. The sound however was not the sound of an airplane from the nearby airport. I looked up to the sky to see a small black triangle craft coming down to earth, I panicked and pointed it out to my parents (I'm 23). We did not get a photo graph of the object. The craft slowly descended down to the sidewalk, the craft was around 4 ft. long and 2 ft. tall. and had green and blue lights all over, the craft also made a few sounds along the lines of "boop beep ziiip". The craft hovered in front of me and my parents for a short time before shooting off into the sky. Us 3 are the only witnesses to this event as far as I know. I'm not sure if our dog should count as a witness or not, he did bark at the object a few times, so if you do count as animals as witnesses, it's 4. ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #1 FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) Dear Peter, Thank you for replying to my report. My report is 100% sincere. My parents don't believe in aliens and are dismissing this and don't want to get involved, so I'm all you've got right now. I live east coast near D.C. I own a Cessna 172g and fly it for recreational purposes, I am currently looking into a job to be a Pilot. I did not fly a plane to Spokane where my parents live, I took a long and beautiful car trip. My phone is currently in repairs after I accidentally spilled my beer on it yesterday and will not be able to take calls for a while. If you have any questions feel free to Email me. ((END #1)) ((BEGIN ADDENDUM #2 FROM SOURCE)) I understand that you would expect this report to be a hoax, but I'm dead serious, this has to be the strangest thing that's ever happened to me. ((END #2)) ((ADDENDUM #3 FROM SOURCE)) there is no one to my knowledge who saw it, when we got back home I had asked a few neighbors if they had seen what I had seen and told me I was crazy, I'm assuming they haven't seen It. I had my parents give me a run down of the whole situation, my father believes the craft may have been scanning us, my mother doesn't know what to think, but they don't want to be involved with the whole situation ((END #3)) Serious report, or maybe not?? PD
July 9, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Herron Island, WA
This event happened on the night of July 9, 2016, at approximately 10:15pm. At the end of a week-long camping trip, myself and a friend and his son were staying with friends at their cabin on an island in Case Inlet in Puget Sound, just north of Olympia, Washington. My friends’ cabin is on the south-west side of the island. The day had been mostly overcast and breezy, but the clouds had been clearing off in the evening and the breeze had died down. All five of us were enjoying the evening conversations on the lower deck, standing around a campfire we had built in the pit. I started to walk up the path towards the upper deck and the cabin when I noticed an orange light/orb rising up through the trees, towards the center of the island. It really surprised me because the light was very bright and very orange/red and seemed out of place. I turned back to the other four people and asked “what is that?” as I pointed to the sky. They we perplexed as well. The light looked like an orange or red LED light. It was very intense. I thought it looked like fire, but with no flickering. We thought that maybe it’s a firework floating under a parachute, since the day was just past the fourth of July. But the light continued to rise and come towards us from east to west and slowly arched towards the north. The breeze that was blowing around 5 to 10 mph, was blowing towards the east, so the light was traveling against the breeze. As the light arched to the north and was almost above us, it suddenly blinked out. I mentioned to the others that it made absolutely no noise. I would estimate the light/orb to be approximately 800-1000 feet high. Just as the light “blinked out,” another light appeared from the same area as the first and began to come towards us. It took almost the same path in the sky as the first, but came further to the west. Again, no noise and it arched towards the north and disappeared above us. This time I noted the light was higher, but still below the clouds. We again began conversing as to what this could be. Someone mentioned a drone. But no noise and why would its lights turn off above us? Someone else asked if it could be military flares. But no variation in the light and no smoke visible or no parachute. Maybe a paper lantern? Again, no variation in the light like a flame would make. And why were they moving against the wind direction? Again, just as that light disappeared, another rose through the trees, followed immediately by a fourth light. At this time my friends wife and I began walking through the yard and around to the front of the cabin and on the road to get a better view. My other three friends remained in the back yard. Both lights traveled the same but slightly wider arch across the sky, moving about the same speed as a small airplane would move. Both of those lights disappeared behind some trees that were blocking our view now. A fifth light appeared from a slightly different place (or maybe us changing our location made it seem as so). As this fifth light moved across the sky I heard the sound of a small airplane approaching. I turned to the south and saw the plane flying towards the light. I could tell it was an airplane. The sound and the navigation lights, definitely an airplane. The plane flew what looked like beside the light, but I noticed the light was a little lower than th! e plane. I lost track of the airplane, but the light was straight above us and it had stopped in the sky. This time I took a very good look at the light. It looked like fire, but with absolutely no flickering of the light. It had the intensity of LED lights, both red and orange like in a small cluster. I noticed stars above it, because the sky was clearing. As the light was stopped straight above us, it also blinked off. I looked at my friends wife and she looked at me and we both asked each other “what are we looking at?” and “what is this?” I told her I was going to my car and getting my dsl camera. I also grabbed a very powerful flashlight. I remembered all of our cell phones were inside the cabin being charged. Another light rose through the trees as I returned with my camera. I tried to take a photo, but the camera only flipped up the flash and wouldn’t take the picture. Too dark. I took out my flashlight and turned it on and shown it directly at the light which was now moving directly above us. The orange orb stopped in the sky when I did this. I was flashing my flashlight on and off. My friends wife looked at me and said “what are you doing?” In my mind I suddenly realized that I might not want to signal this thing. I turned the flashlight off and the orb again moved across the sky. As it got to our north, it also blinked out. I guess I was trying to see if there was a balloon or parachute holding up these lights. I saw none. After these six lights, there was no more. We waited for another 5 minutes and saw nothing. It was getting cold outside, so we decided to go in for the night. My friend (the owner of the cabin) went down to the lower deck and made sure the fire was out. When he returned to the cabin, he said there was one more orange orb that appeared. The whole evenings events lasted approximately 30-35 minutes. The next day we discussed the occurrence from the night before. Two of my friends seemed to laugh it off. The other three of us were still perplexed. I have never seen anything like this before and I cannot get it out of my head. I checked on the internet and ran across the UFO reporting website. While scanning through the sightings database, I came across a report from the town of Enumclaw, Washington 5 nights prior to our sighting. The similarities sent chills down my spine. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD
July 9, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Richland, WA
Looking west from our backyard last night, there were anywhere between 2 to 5 oval shaped white lights going in various patterns above us in the sky. One would go right, while 4 may go to the left. Two would stay lower, while the other two would shoot up and join the singular one. Sometimes some would blink off & on, while others stayed white. At times they would go in a complete circle. There was no noise with their presence. The only thing we had to try and get a picture was, an IPad. They did not come out well as there is no zoom lens on it. The other person observing this went to get his LED flashlight that is very bright, to see if he could replicate the lights in the sky. They could not. What was in the sky was far beyond the capability of our flashlight. But within 30 seconds of shining our light towards the sky, they came together, stopped all motion, and then vanished.
July 9, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, WA
Saw a black rotating object looking east spinning rotating in place...a small aircraft flew past object was higher than small plane.
July 9, 2016 · 9:00 PM · DIAMOND
Vancouver, WA
Looking eastern direction...11:00. Position... Sky clear...looked up and saw a rotating diamond black gray object stationary...spinning...rotating. Then the clouds rolled in...no sound...smelll none...higher than flying aircraft...we live near Portland International Airport.
July 9, 2016 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Washougal, WA
First pictures are from where the cloud is overhead. I noticed weird clouds and took these pictures from the home of a friend with her camera. after this we proceeded to drive to the local walmart a few mile away. On the way back I noticed the same clouds, but now with dual weird rainbows, real dark with a fireball like plum coming accompanying it. I had my friend pull over to a suitable place to snap some more photos at a local marina some 5 miles from the clouds that are still situated above her house, this being after an hour shopping. I start snapping pictures and within 2 seconds the whole cloud cloak, falls off the UFO, and reveals a 3 sided pyramid, laying on side, with fireball plum coming off rear and intense rainbow at nose. There is a second rainbow similar but not as intense. I have no clue why it did not come out in the pictures. the hypotenuse sides of the UFO were sharp and straight in completeness. But on the facades you could see ! relief with louvers, portals, appendages etc. visible. The other witness is viewing the same thing with complete amazement like myself. It never moved, and being at 5pm I am facing due east so the sun was at my back. We got back in car and by the time I looked up again it was cloaked and the rainbows were gone. While looking at the peripheral of the situation I felt as if there were other craft in close proximity but cloaked by dark clouds. On a side note, I have a couple of friends who independently at the same time saw from below these clouds dual concentric rainbows overhead. Another reliability/credibility adder is that we are both professionals with degrees, my education is from The US Air Force Academy and Univ of Washington, and hers is from the Univ. of California.
July 9, 2016 · 10:04 AM · UNKNOWN
Amboy, WA
the lights started flickering and i heard a low buzzing noise. at first i thought it was the dryer but then all the power went out and there was blue and orange lights that apperared in the whole sky. the sky literally lit up but there were no fireworks or boom noises going off. then the power came back on and that was it.
July 9, 2016 · 3:24 AM · OTHER
Whidbey Island, WA
I was out on my deck at night, and I saw a light cruising by the bay. It waited there for about 10-20 seconds, flashing red and green. It then suddenly shot up into the sky, and as it passed through the clouds, it left a gaping hole in the cloud cover. Approximately 10-12 hours later, as I was at the beach near where the craft was spotted, there was a strange smell in the air and the trees were bent slightly back.
July 4, 2016 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
Watching fire works,saw light, watched come in and out of view, other similar objects joined it. Amazing thing, narrated as we watched, it was not questionable. Came and went right in front of our eyes. Date is flawed, and we have amended it. We are unconvinced that this is a serious-minded report. We have attempted to contact the witness, but were unsuccessful. PD
July 4, 2016 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE
Everett, WA
Did anyone else see at least 2 fluorescnet or bright orange boomerang/sphere shaped objects float directly across Silver Lake in SE fashion - Everett WA? They were both very quiet - my first impression of 1st object was a drone, but wondered why it was so bright?? when I saw the 2nd one about 3min later I was wondering if it was a flare? which didn't seem right either... both objects were eerily quiet, very small and flying under 500ft. Both certainly had a purpose, on a mission - like it was documenting our fireworks displays...?
July 4, 2016 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Bellevue, WA
Three objects observed during community fireworks display at downtown park with about 20,000 people in attendance. The fireworks display was towards the North of park, looking over to the East I seen a pair of green blinking lights just at edge of cloud ceiling (appeared to be hiding within clouds) was moving toward park. At first I though it was small plane, but then it stopped and was in a stationary position for about 2-minutes after which it flashed a row of red and then a row of yellow lights, alternating quickly back and forth between the two colors for a couple of seconds before returning to two blinking green lights. Then the object started moving slowly towards the South, and a second later it started traveling at the speed of a military jet, then slowed down to a stop just above the horizon from my point of view. I then seen another pair of similar green lights flashing just inside the clouds above the crowd that was watching the fireworks, most! people seemed to be paying attention to the fireworks and might not have noticed the objects, or if they did they may have thought they were planes. The second object was stationed over the park in the clouds, the first object then came back towards the fireworks area and became stationary within the clouds, then a third object with a pair of solid red lights at of front with flashing green lights at rear appeared just south of the park and was stationary just below cloud level through out the fireworks display. It was interesting to see all three objects floating in the sky as if enjoying the fireworks. The two object closest to the fireworks display would move slowly then stop and move again from one side of the display to the other etc. The third object to the south remained in a stationary position throughout. The objects seem to be communicating by flashing their lights, the blinking lights were not constant, but seemed Morse code like. After the fireworks displ! ay, one object moved out towards the East and out of sight, an! d one mo ved out of sight toward the south then returned and appeared near another fireworks display five miles away wrapping up over Seattle where it stopped and sat for a minute, then quickly flashed alternating rows of red and yellow lights then resumed to flashing green lights and took off to the south at military jet speed. I do not know when the object with the solid pair of red lights left after the fireworks display were over because I wasn't paying attention to it at the time. There were no helicopter, jet or plane sounds during the event. I ruled out local drones because of the altitude and speed of the objects. They flew faster then a helicopter and local plane, traveling my guess would be, about a mile a second.
July 4, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Vancouver, WA
Changed colors between red and green hovering at a stopped point then moving every once in a while over the fireworks display.
July 4, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Buckley, WA
We had invited a couple over to have dinner and watch the neighborhood fireworks. At 9:50 we walked down to our lower field so that trees wouldn't block our view. After a few minutes I noticed an orange orb gliding across the sky. All of the others noticed it and we watched trying to guess why it was acting odd. I thought it might be a parachute from a firework that was on fire and drifting towards us. As it got closer, we realized realized it wasn't on fire, so we thought it might be a drone. The problem with that was it was starting to move faster towards our upper field and during a lull in the fireworks it was almost over head and there was no noise. It was approximately 500 to 800 feet high. We ran to the upper field to watch as it went towards Enumclaw, gaining speed. It had started from the direction of Orting. Of course, no one thought of using their cell phones to take pictures. We were standing around trying to guess what it was, when I noticed that another orb coming from the Sumner direction, heading towards Enumclaw again. It was about 2 minutes after the first orb. This time one of us thought to use a cell phone to video it. Again it moved quietly and fast. At that point I ran into the house and grabbed my iPad since the phone video didn't come out. The color was consistently a red-orange with no variation in appearance. There was no clear outline of structure. The orbs were below the cloud layer and gained altitude as they headed towards Enumclaw. 3 of the 4 of us had been inspectors for Boeing, and one had been an air traffic controller, our facts are accurate. We stood around for about 5 minutes scanning the sky. To hell with fireworks! Ten minutes later another orb appeared coming from the South Prairie area, heading towards Enumclaw again. This one was higher than the previous two. I was able to get a very short video and several pictures as it came closer to us. Another orb followed following the same path about 2-3 minutes later. We stood around waiting and watching and finally gave up on seeing more. About 50 minutes later, the ex controller spotted another orb, this time coming from the Wilkeson area and heading towards Enumclaw again. This one was even higher, approx 3000 feet. Another orb followed the same path about 2 minutes later. By then, everyone was tired and the couple decided to head for home. As we went inside to gather things up, my husband came and said we wouldn't believe what he saw. Another orb had followed the last two at a slightly lower altitude. The orb stopped and split into two orbs and went into the the cloud layer. The first sightings started from the Sumner direction, and ended coming from the Wilkeson area. The locations are almost in a straight line and approx. 10 miles apart. The closest air field is privately owned Connley Field in Buckley and there was no air traffic. This was the best 4th we've had in a long time!