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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
September 11, 2015 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Morton, WA
Viewing the eastern sky on a very clear night (9/11/2015) in eastern Lewis County, WA, I observed a bright ball of light about the size of a planet (viewed with the naked eye) with a magnitude of something similar to Venus appear move down about 3° toward the horizon, then disappear. Five minutes later I observed an illuminated object, which had a yellow pulsing light (no other lights), flying at an across the sky southeast in the direction of where the ball of light disappeared. The object was silent and I couldn’t hear any engine after it passed over. The object seemed to be at approximately 20,000 feet altitude. When the object passed where the ball of light disappeared, another flash caught my peripheral in the southeastern sky approximately 5° below and in front of the object traveling southeast. I looked southeast in the direction of where the first flash caught my peripheral, and one second later another brighter flash or beam quickly darted past ! the object and looked like it came straight from space towards the ground. The illuminated pulsing object kept traveling southeast in the direction of Mt. Adams. I watched it until the mountains blocked my view of it. It was definitely not a conventional aircraft of any kind, and too low and slow to be a satellite. The disappearing ball of light was a calming feeling, and the flashes of light shooting towards the object made my hair stand on my arms. It was a bit of a sinister feeling when the flashes came down from the sky. The object stayed on course and it never deviated from its southeast direction of travel. The flying illuminated object did not give me shivers like when those flashes came down.
September 11, 2015 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Redmond, WA
I went outside at about 6 am to take my dogs on emergency potty break. We live in the "woods", and it was still very dark. I looked up at the sky and saw one very bright “star”. I realized that the sky was overcast and no other stars were visible, I then wondered if perhaps it a planet. I didn’t think it was an airplane because of its height and brightness, and the fact that it did not appear to be moving at all. I observed it for a few moments, and then thought I detected a pulsing quality about it, which seemed odd. I went inside to grab some binoculars, and when I returned it was still in the same spot. I didn’t think that I would be able to see anything, but I was able to see that it was actually a disk or oval shaped flying object. I felt like I was viewing the bottom part of it, and could see an inner ring of chasing lights, they were brightly colored. I looked several times to make sure it was in the same spot. I thought it would disappear, but I watched for about 5 minutes. I then decided to wake up my husband and have him take a look. He saw the same thing. I watched for a little while longer, than noticed that it seemed to be moving slowly further away, and eventually the morning fog obscured it all together. It was too dark and far to photograph. I would not have noticed it on a clearer night. I don’t know what to think.
September 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
On the evening of September 9th 2015 my husband and I witnessed what we both at first believed to be an airplane while outside having a cigarette on our deck. We saw a red glowing circular light (not blinking)and we assumed it to be an airplane in a holding pattern as we usually can see that type of air traffic frequently out of Sea-Tac. The light was red & not changing but what caught our immediate attention was that it would flash a white light three times then turned back to glowing red every so often. It came in from the east. After several minutes trying to figure out what it might be it came to a dead stop in the sky, flashed white 3 times again then proceeded to do a straight drop decent behind the trees per our view of the horizon. We were astonished and stayed to see if it would come back in to view and after a few minutes it came back in to our view and began moving sided to side (right/left & left/right) back & forth and flashing white every so ofte! n. It seemed to be searching for something and I witnessed several smaller glowing objects flying out & dropping down from the craft. This was watched by both of us for at least 20minutes if not longer. It was in the path of airplane traffic that night & must have come up on radar somewhere. We figured it was out towards Manchester or Blake Island/over the Puget Sound or in that general area. We watched it descend out of view again and waited another 5-10min before going back inside. This morning, today being 9-11-15 I woke up with pain in my back and have a welt with a circular scoop mark on my back and a big scratch there is no way I could have done to myself. I'm not sure if they are related but I believe I've been having these types of encounters all my life. My mother & sister have reported to this agency before over a major happening back in 2001 & Robert Fairfax came to interview them however my mom was too afraid to face it at the time as that wasn't her 1st encount! er. I'm hoping to get some help for our family to try & unders! tand all of this! Thanks for reading & hope we weren't the only ones who saw this :-)
September 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Yakima, WA
My husband and I were sitting outside about 9 PM when we noticed 8 aircraft flying in formation from east to west. There was also a helicopter flying around the Yakima area at the same time. All of a sudden we saw a flash of orange/red light fall out of the sky and head in the northern direction. It fell like a meteor only it took on the shape of a teardrop as it dropped in the north, turning white. We saw one last evening 9/10 only it was white the whole time.
September 9, 2015 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
San Juan Islands, WA
Looks like a lens flare. PD
September 9, 2015 · 3:15 PM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
Despite having seen a UFO many years ago, I never thought I'd report a sighting to you. September 9th, 2015, while riding the LINK light rail south through Columbia City. I saw an orange craft, that I initially thought was an airplane banner, yet no airplane was near it. As my train moved along, and I viewed this in the western sky. The object did not diminish in size, nor move. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2015 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Pasco, WA
I'm facing the river, looking west you can see the glow of the Hanford site operation lights. Above these lights, which I've seen many times before, I notice a flashing red and white light. It was probably on the western side of the reactor complex, it wasn't directly over it. I carry binoculars, so I got them out and had a look. Upon getting a better view, I can see that there are two red lights on the up side, I can't say witch was up and two white lights on the down or bottom side. At this point the lights were flashing much like an aircraft would but was stationery in the sky. After a minute or so, it started moving from the west, heading north northeast. When the thing got over the Columbia River, it stopped and went backwards the way it had come from, and again immediatly stopped turned back the way it was originally headed. It the went up or north for a second two, then flew slowly over the white bluffs you can see their outlines in the dark. When it got right to the edge where I would lose sight of it, it stopped. Sat there for about thirty seconds, and then disappeared out of view. About five minutes went by, and then I could see it again heading from the north, now traveling west southwest. It stopped again for a few seconds and then must have flown directly west. What really was interesting was a few minutes later the Auroras Borealis or northern lights gave an impressive light show for me. I had seen them only once before when I lived in Norway.
September 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, WA
Went out side saw a bright redish orange light above the treeline seeming to be hovering. Then called my wife out to look. Then several other of the same lights coming in to view from behind the trees as soon as those one cought up to the light that was hovering they all took off to the south southwest and disappeared with out any sound. Then a few minutes later two more came from the same position that the rest came from and left in the same direction and speed of the rest of the lights
September 2, 2015 · 9:57 PM · OVAL
Roosevelt, WA
This can be seen from here, but, it is in the southern sky and looks to be over in Oregon. I saw it moving side to side then drop down lower and come back up, it is reddish and bright. Called my husband to come see it and without me telling him what it was doing, he said, "you mean that red light that's going up and down and moving," now 22:07 and went out to see if still there. It has dropped lower in sky and is now making maneuvers like a bee going from flower to flower!! It is too far away for a photograph. A plane could not move like this object is doing. We are retired, middle class people.
September 1, 2015 · 12:00 AM · DIAMOND
Ford, WA
For some time I have been witnessing strange lights in the sky. They sometimes huver in one place and a few times have flown in a triangle pattern. This has happened periodically for about 4 years that I noticed. One night in particular it was late and I could not sleep so I went down to Long Lane and sat on the dock about a mile 31st of Long Lake Dam when I noticed a bright light in the present of the moon and it followed the moon until day broke. The very next night the light was also in the sky but this time held itself to the east of where I was... Above the painted rock's belonging to the Spokane Tribe of Indians. A year earlier then that situation I witnessed a fireball traveling low and westbound through the sky. I have come to wonder what these crafts are. They move at the speed unknown to me or any others I have brought the attention of these lights to. Now I have moved north of the area 61st still occassionally see the craft huvering in the night ! sky.
August 23, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Port Angeles, WA
It looked just like the other stars, but was moving faster than a satellite in a straight line from South to Northeast. No blinking lights. I kept watching its progress for about 20 seconds when - it exploded! This was a bright, white light that shot out maybe 200 times larger than the 'star'. The flash was not uniform in shape, nor was there any 'roundness' to this flash. It was lopsided with huge, sharp spikes radiating outward. This flash lasted less than a breath. The 'star' continued its same path for maybe 3 seconds and then simply disappeared.
August 22, 2015 · 1:05 AM · FLASH
Lake Tapps, WA
Approximately 1:00AM, I saw an extremely bright flash in the western skies. The flash lit up the sky, and appeared to be extremely light blue/lime green in color, with a very thick and dense cloudy texture that moved quickly. It happened so fast that it reminded me of a camera flash, except it seemed to be faster than that. After the flash went away, I was unable to see any kind of residue or anything left behind by the flash.
August 19, 2015 · 9:53 PM · UNKNOWN
Lakewood, WA
My husband and I witnessed an object flying across the sky very quickly with blueish-green lights. At first I thought it was a drone, but it was too high in the sky and moving way too fast. It made no sound as it got half way into our view of the sky. It then stopped for a few seconds, and continued towards us. It then got to about right above us and stopped again. Then it moved up and down, and making very erratic movements. It then started blinking very fast a reddish color and flew very fast back the direction it came from, and off into the distance dropped out of the sky at an alarming rate.
August 19, 2015 · 8:25 PM · OTHER
Sumner, WA
About 9:15, went to the library with my dog. We had been seeing a large lop eared bunny in that area for a few nights. My dog loves to chase squirrels and bunnies. She’s too old and fat to catch them but she enjoys the chase and it gives here exercise. Sky was dark, lots of stars, busy flight path (Sea-Tac Intl airport about 15 or so miles away). It was warm out. I sat on a curb facing the Puyallup River (could be a different river name), that runs behind the library. Noticed a white light moving in the sky very high. I could tell that it was moving because I could see movement through the leaves and branches of a big maple tree. I took some pics and only one showed the light and in the pic, it looks like a yellow orb but to my eye, it looked white. I moved into a large parking area free of trees to get a better look and it looked like a planet – it was not twinkling – just a white light high in the sky. I was thinking that if one didn’t have a stationary object to use as a reference point, it would be very hard to realize that it was moving – one would probably think it to be a planet. I watched it for about 15 minutes and tried to take a video of it but it was not visible in the camera. Decided to go across the street and walk over to the field between the Post Office and Mc Lendon’s. There had been a car parked in the library parking lot for two nights in a row while we were there and I wanted to keep distance from it. We began to reach the outer edge of the parking lot when I decided not to walk all the way to the field because I didn’t have my flashlight. I turned to walk back the way we came when an extremely bright white light, which appeared as a large white orb, very low in the sky, caught my eye. It was very unusual. It seemed to be heading in our direction from the middle of town. I moved closer into the McLendon’s parking lot and turned on the recording button on the camera. I could see it very well and it was bright but the recording didn’t show it as it looked to me and I couldn’t see it through the screen of the camera until it was very close. There had to be people that seen this thing! It was so low and bright, it had to have caught someone’! s attention. As it got closer, like almost to the AM PM, it clearly had 5 super bright lights in a row – shaped like princess cut diamonds that sparkled and one red slow blinking light underneath – funny, I did not see any structure to this object for how close it was. It seemed to have a plane sound but very quiet sound of a plane – which didn’t make sense either. I felt like I had been standing there observing this thing for a long time and felt self conscious about it feeling this thing may be a ‘plane’ and here I am recording it in the parking lot, so I quickly turned the camera off after it passed in front of me. If it was a plane – it was the quietest plane I ever seen but then it did not have any structure of a plane. Maybe those 5 bright white lights blinded my vision..? I wish I would have continued recording it to see if it got into the flight path. That’s another thing, I am an avid sky watcher in this town and have lived here over 18 years, I have seen a lot o! f things and I have never seen a plane fly the direction that ! it did…but who knows…watch the recording and let me know if you think you know what it is….Thanks. Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
August 19, 2015 · 7:55 PM · OTHER
Kingston, WA
I was driving East on NE Country Woods Lane at about 15 miles per hour. I observed an aircraft that may have been a blimp about 200' above the ground that looked similar to an airbus 320 but was much shorter in length and much wider in diameter, more like a pregnant guppy shape. It seemed to be traveling directly South at about a speed of 35 miles per hour. Within a few seconds of observing it--it went out of my sight because of large trees blocking my view. I continued East for about 5 seconds and my sight was no longer obscured and the floating object was not there at all. From this point of view I could see over 1500 feet and my vision was unimpaired all the way from the East thru directly South to the West. The sky was totally blue skies at that time except for one small white cloud visible to me directly where I had extrapolated the object would be, factoring in its apparent speed and direction. If anyone in the immediate area was looking up they should have easily seen the object.
August 15, 2015 · 7:10 PM · FIREBALL
Yakima, WA
First: I realize there is meteor activity lately and I am sure it is not such. I had just walked out of my house and looked up. At first I did see a plane BUT after changing view, see a glowing yellow orb. I call out a friend and they started recording with their phone. For a short time the orb bobbled up & down with faded ghostly fume like prongs on it, 3 of them. Then the orb faded off into the sky east turning red. All above WV Yakima. I have also seen this exact report a few days ago.
August 12, 2015 · 10:50 PM · OVAL
Olympia/Nisqually Valley, WA
Children were playing outside at various places around the house and one child yelled to look and all children present saw a blue/green flash of light with a glowing white v shape surrounding it. It moved right left right, a zig zag before it left at high speed, much faster than anything else they have seen. All children ran into the house immediately and all shouted the same description. One child described the size equivalent to 4 -6 full size vans, and hovered approximately two cedar trees tall. The object also flashed a bright yellow flash before it left. The children said it made no sound.
August 12, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Spanaway, WA
During the meteor shower my girlfriend, my daughter, and myself were outside watching the very beginning of the shower. All of a sudden we start seeing a very bright light in the sky jumping around all over the place like a bouncy ball in the sky, nothing our crafts can do, as we are watching it, a HUGE disk-like object appeared out of no-where and accelerated at a speed i have never seen in my life.It was completely quiet, extremely close, and lit the entire sky and surrounding area up like day light when it took off. It took off so fast from a dead stop that it left a tracer of itself momentarily and had almost a plasma looking tail coming off he end of it, and in a flash it was gone, leaving a trail behind it which lingered for a moment. It shot off towards FT. Lewis, SW direction, and lit the ENTIRE sky when it did. However, it was faced almost in a downward direction when it took off, and looked like it could have landed in the FT. Lewis woods. Almost immediately afterwards, the sky lit up with unmarked helicopters which searched the back woods of Ft. Lewis for HOURS. They were definately looking for something, thry flew extremely low and had no lights or markers on, could only see the red blink of a safety light occasionally and you could hear the thunderous engines of the helicopters working overtime all night. We also noticed that almost right after the "ufo crash" or whatever it may have been, there were bright dots in the sky which would randomly show up, do some extremely crazy aeirial acrobatics, then appear to fade away. One of them came extremely close, and was bright as a spotlight, it was a completely round, extremely bright, white light that seemed to scan the area. I also think it's important to document that both my daughter, my girlfriend, and I kept feeling as though we were being watched, even before te sighting when we were just watching the meteor shower, and when the craft first appeared, it did seem to appear out of no-where. I have seen MANY meteor showers, as have my daughter and girlfriend. What we saw WAS NOT A METEOR, nor were the other objects. We also noticed more military planes and helicopters in the sky as the night went on, all neglecting to put on their main lights, just a couple red lights keep from having mid air collisions. I finally went to bed at a.m., and I could still hear the helicopters searching for whatever. It is important to note that there was not a single military vehicle in the air or area until literally RIGHT after the UFO sighting, all neighborhood dogs were going absolutely CRAZY. It was as if this thing un-cloaked itself and went into warp speed right in front of us. It was absoutely incredible, and I will NEVER forget what we saw last night for the rest of my life. Being during a meteor shower, I'm sure everyone will write it off as a meteor, but we know what we saw, and so does the military apparently, and that was NO METEOR. Thank you for listening and for giving people somewhere to report our! sighting without feeling like we are going to be called crazy, I hope this is able to help someone in finding out the truth about what is going on in our skies and our world.
August 8, 2015 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Spokane, WA
This last summer me and my son were on the roof star gazing, facing west we saw the red orb type ufo fly from northwest to southeast, then a second or few later it flew back northwest from the southeast direction until it disappeared. What I believed makes this sighting so great is that we saw a passenger plane flying about 2000k ft. below the ufo(the ufo was extremely high in the sky) so we could get a real reference of how fast the ufo was going which was a lot faster than the plane at a much higher altitude.
August 8, 2015 · 4:15 AM · CIRCLE
Gig Harbor, WA
Unable to sleep, I went and sat outside on the deck where I have a view from Gig Harbor, WA, looking east to Tacoma, near the Narrows Bridge. The sky at 4:10 was uniform with a high overcast. The color of the sky was deep grey,..no stars showing through. I noticed a faint lightening in an area high over the water,...so i was looking intently as a bright arc came through part of the overcast...stayed there for approx 20 seconds, then withdrew or went back in cloud cover. I watched again in the same exact spot (two trees framed the spot so i know it was exact same spot) when the same thing repeated. The sky lightened, the arc appeared and was huge. To extrapolate from the arc, the craft must have been enormous. The normal aircraft that we see here are less than pea-sized at arms length. The craft this morning was from index finger to thumb fully extended at arm's length. The arc was uniformly bright and sharply defined.
August 6, 2015 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Vancouver, WA
Long or round football shape, I don't know first flew s by se over e Vancouver in a southerly direction. I followed it on foot it disappeared by about 5 minutes later it came back about 4 to 5 miles west of its disappearence. Flying n to nw at an northerly direction. I video on my android the same craft it moved strangely jumpy like in motion the disappeared. I don't know how to send it but I know how to Facebook it at my fb page ((name deleted)) on Facebook if that will help with sound to OK. I just wanna know what it was it flew low, about 900 feet lower than the commercial planes do when they take off or land.
August 2, 2015 · 11:35 PM · FIREBALL
Port Townsend, WA
Aug. 2, 2015/2335 hrs. Huge Explosion in the North East sky, viewed from 12 miles south of Port Townsend, WA. (48.03.23 N.Lat.) An immense explosion occurred low on the horizon, above what appeared to be Whidbey Island (US Navy Base). There appeared an (apparent) ground/sea based (Laser ??) instantaneous streak upward (approx. 45 degrees) just prior to an enormous sky explosion - lasting approx. 6 seconds - of red/orange/yellow fire-flame expanding in height and width. No smoke or steam, and not even remote trailing or falling debris, as in a SAM (Surface to Air missile) or from an aircraft collision. Nor was there a SAM tail or winding search of such. This was an enormous red/orange “FIRE,” expanding all consuming explosion; the visual lasting approximately 6 seconds. And then in an instant disappeared. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be sincere and sober-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
July 31, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
My adult son and I witnessed 3 balls of light over the bay, spaced evenly apart for approximately 4 minutes right before dark. They hovered there for about 3-4 minutes, the one on the right slowly faded out, after that the middle one did the same. The one on the left seemed to fade somewhat, but then started to travel to the left before fading out all the way. The next night I returned to the same spot at around the same time and there were two of the same lights as had previously seen. I watched them again until they faded out in the same way.
July 31, 2015 · 10:10 AM · CIRCLE
Puyallup, WA
standing back yard of home watching comm airliners land at sea tac. thats when i saw plane fly under the ufo. round and silver in color with no lights it did not move for 4 min. no con trail. then just disapperd out of sight.