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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
May 25, 2015 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Centralia, WA
On June 25, 2015, at approximately 11:40 PM, my boyfriend and I were standing on the balcony of The Great Wolf Lodge hotel looking east. The sky was completely clear and I noticed that even though we were in a populated area that more stars were visible in Centralia than at home in Everett. As we were admiring the stars I pointed to a moving light. I thought it was a satellite moving from the South to the north but just as I said, “Hey, look it’s a satellite,” it suddenly “flamed up” got extremely bright then disappeared out of sight. Almost as though a rocket engine had engaged. Not exactly sure what it was. Very well could have been a satellite and we just got lucky and saw it burn up in the atmosphere. Wasn’t going to report but I haven’t been able to get it off my mind since. Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD
May 20, 2015 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Lynden, WA
My wife and I noticed large flashing of lightning in the foothills behind our backyard. It was difficult to see exactly where it was because it was inconsistent when we tried to look directly at it. The lightning had no sounds of thunder afterwards as there weren't any clouds in the sky either. My daughter woke up shortly after we saw the first flashes from a bad dream and noticed there was a blue flashing orb in the sky. I gave her binoculars and had her point it out to us. My wife and I saw a sky full of stars but no blue up where she was pointing. I then got out our digital SLR camera and took a few shots where she was pointing and saw exactly what she was describing. My wife and I were unable to see it but my daughter and the camera picked it up. My daughter also noticed about 8 red/blue lights coming from the vicinity of the blue one heading towards to lighting near the foothills. I took photos of the sky where she said they were but still my naked eye couldn't see what she saw however the camera did. This went on for over an hour or two. She also saw the stars squeeze and pull tight in a spot in the sky similar to what a black hole or worm hole is described.
May 19, 2015 · 9:05 PM · OTHER
Bellingham, WA
May 19th, my wife and I just saw an unidentified object moving slowly from West to East over Bellingham, WA. It was round in shape and had lights around it. We watched it for about 10 minutes as it flew slowly and then ascended at a faster pace and disappeared. We have never seen anything like this before and are hoping that others in the area have seen it too, as it was fairly low and slow moving.
May 15, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Arlington, WA
About 12:50 am, I walked out on my deck noticed 3 stars, equally spaced, looked like orians belt I was looking do west. l looked south to see orion but dident I looked back and forth for about a minutes then just stared to the west I didnt rember 3 stars before . Then all of a sudden the star on the right moved north west for 3seconds about the distance between the spaces between all 3 stars .then disappeared like a light switch all this time all 3stars were same distance apart and same brightness
May 12, 2015 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Mount Vernon, WA
I was going out to my car to put something in the trunk and I happened to look up in the sky. What I saw was this bright orange/red light slowly across the sky. I first thought that it was either a plane or a helicopter but then I noticed that there was no engine sound at all. The next thing that I noticed was that there were things dropping from it like sparks that drop from a sparkler. All of a sudden it made a 90 degree left turn ( toward me ) and just hovered there. All that time I still did not hear any engine sound at all. After about two minutes, it seemed like, the thing started to go straight up and the light faded and pretty soon I could not see it at all. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We strongly suspect that the report is accurate. PD
May 10, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
My husband and I were visiting my mother in Puyallup, Washington, and had returned to our hotel, The Hampton Inn, to go to bed, as we were leaving the next morning. It was around 10:30 p.m., maybe a little later, and I was lying in the bed farthest from the window. I noticed in the sky, 3-6 lights in the sky. At first I thought maybe it was a reflection, but even after moving around, the lights remained. I told my husband and he confirmed what I was seeing. His initial/instant reaction was to say that they were planes. I told him that did not make sense because planes do not fly that close together and remain in one place. He agreed and suggested helicopters. But, then we both said that did not make sense either. Before we could think much about it, all but one of the lights were just instantly gone. My husband and I both looked at each other shocked and then the last light was gone. We didn’t see any of them move, they were just gone. We tried looking up sighting online but didn’t find anything. I have looked a few times since to see if anything was reported, but I don’t really know where to look and the sites I was able to locate didn’t have that date listed. So, I figured it might be good to report it in case others witnessed this also.
May 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Bellevue, WA
I have never seen a UFO before, but this was a strange sighting. I am already forgetting the details, but what I recall was something like this: a green light (or two lights, but as if in one vehicle?) shot up from low in the sky at a speed that made me think of a firework being launched. The light(s) reached a certain altitude (30-45 degrees up from the horizon) and hovered for what felt like 30 seconds. I got out of my car to look at it, because the initial movement (and the subsequent lack thereof) was so unusual. It just hovered there for an oddly long stretch of time, then I noticed the light(s) were red, as though it had turned around abruptly. It still hovered for a few more seconds, then took off again in a different direction, flying off out of sight, maybe with green lights again. I should have recorded all this right after seeing it, but my kids (who saw it too) were a little freaked out, and I had to downplay the whole thing. Can't remember if I ever saw red and green lights at the same time. The initial "shooting up" movement was much faster than a commercial plane, though perhaps could have been a fighter jet? No sound was heard, though. My kids suggested the "hovering light" was a flying vehicle heading towards us, hence the appaearance of not moving. But there was never any change in light size or brightness, as you see when an airplane (which always has white lights!) is heading towards you.
May 5, 2015 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
Object had two green lights in front and two red lights in back. one blinking red light bottom center. I first saw it stationary high above the Columbia Tower bldg, but after a few seconds it moved over by the waterfront at a high rate of speed dropped down and rose quickly back up and went behind Safeco Field out of my view. Its movement was not smooth but as if the operator was giving the "gas pedal" short bursts or feathering it to keep it in motion.I had just left the ball field where I work and was sober. I could hear no noise or sound from object and could not see the object, only the lights that made it seem like a four cornered craft, one light on each corner, green lights always in front. I watched for about five min. flying back and forth staight up and down, no wide turns, dead stop then change directions. I am 59 and never seen anything move like it.
May 3, 2015 · 12:10 AM · LIGHT
Sumner, WA
Friday evening, May 2, 2015, about 10 pm, checked night sky out my slider door and nothing caught my eye. I thought to myself that it has been a long time since something happened that was definitely unusual, almost no doubting that the sighting is 'different'. There were not many stars out and the sky was cloudy. Saturday evening, May 3, 2015, I was in my room watching TV and decided to warm up my left over pizza. I was heating my pizza and checked the sky out the slider door and immediately seen a single blue light, flying about the altitude that a small plane would fly but it was emitting a blue beam angled downward. It wasn’t very far from my apt. and coming my way. I grabbed the binoculars but this confused the situation as I think the kids dropped it recently because I seem to get two of things now. So, now it looked like two blue lights as if one were on each end of a wing. Set binoculars down and was going to dart to the bedroom and get the camera but didn’t because it would probably be gone by the time I got back. Grabbed the binoculars again and now it was one red light flashing but the beam was still there. It was coming towards me so the front of the craft would be facing me and the beam shone out from its left side. The beam was the same circumference from beginning to end and it ended or was not visible about half way to the ground. It didn’t sway/search but was one steady beam as if it were fixed. I tried to follow the beam with the binoculars but it would be invisible half way out from where it originated. I only seen this for about 2 minutes and then it was nearly over the apt and out of sight. I could not make out any shape of whatever was emitting the beam. I was in the apt and could not hear a plane or helicopter sound. This immediately reminded me of a similar sighting like this last year. However, I spotted the object for a longer period however the beam was exactly the same. It was flying basically over residential neighborhoods but there is a large field in between some housing filled with sheep and livestock. I wondered last year if it was scoping out the livestock as well. There was a beautiful full moon out which made the sky very light/bright for midnight. There were not many clouds but since the sky was so light, it was hard to see many stars.
May 2, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Longview, WA
Bright orange/yellow disc with bright red dome on top ascended straight up from ground to low above tree line then took off at high speed and diagonal upward direction in northeast direction. It was highly visible yet no sound was heard. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 2, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Kent/Renton, WA
My two girls and I were leaving family's house in Renton, heading toward Kent, when we saw a HUGE fiery-red object in the Southern sky. The object was cylindrical in shape, had a very bright red, hazy aura around it, and as it descended, it seemed to stretch out, as if it were moving so fast it left a streak across the sky. Before it dropped, it hovered for approximately 30 seconds while we watched. I don't know how long it was there before we came upon it, but after about 30 seconds, maybe a little more, it rapidly shot downward to the ground.
May 1, 2015 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Tacoma, WA
Green light thought to be plane traveled across the sky in half a second. Then back across the sky in the direction it came from. Hovered for about 3 seconds, dropped. Shot back up hovered. The green light turned red then green again hovered then dropped and disappeared
April 29, 2015 · 1:23 AM · RECTANGLE
Redmond, WA
I woke up in the night and heard a very loud noise, like somebody is running a lawn machine outside. The sound is definitely not like what regular planes would make, so I walked over to the window and pull up the curtain. I immediately saw a large object in the sky flying at a much lower height than the regular plane with red and green lights in a rectangular shape. The object passed by my window in less than 1 minute. I'm pretty sure it is not the regular plane, it has rectangular shape, fly much closer to the ground and the noise is very special.
April 25, 2015 · 10:40 PM · CIRCLE
Anacortes, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 25, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
I walked outside and my sight was immediately drawn to a bright orange light moving across the sky. It was a clear night no clouds and all the stars were bright, I at first thought it was an aircraft that had caught fire it was that orange, large and bright. It disappeared after about 2- min after I saw it. I am a 47yo Freelance artist with a degree. I witnessed circular lights over South Mountain in AZ 24 years ago, aside from these two incidents I have never encountered anything I was unable to rationalize. It did not make me nervous or excited, just curious.
April 20, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FORMATION
Pullman, WA
As I'm lying in bed in my apartment, I see outside my window a really bright light, so I kept staring at it. It was a fixed white light with a red flashing light right beside it, sometimes it looked like it was underneath the white light and sometimes it looked like it was to the side of it. As if it was changing direction. I first womdered if it was a planet because some flash colors but it started to move really fast up and down, and side to side. I watched for two hours as it hovered and moved back and forth across the sky, to eventually disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 19, 2015 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Yacolt, WA
I saw another flash of light that looked like a stry one and a small light come off that looked like a small white ball. I Went in and other my daughter...actually woke her up. She watched it bounce another. And then my other daughter came up because she wasn't feeling good and told her to come out and see. She also saw the light and movement. It then proceed to move slowly south. I told much husband tonight and he said, "Well, if it's a start, it will there tonight." And it's not.
April 19, 2015 · 11:10 PM · CIRCLE
Seattle, WA
On April 19th, 2015, I was outside on my deck located in West Seattle (a neighborhood just Southwest ) of the main downtown core of Seattle, WA, with an approx. 240 degree view from N-NW to S-SW with Boeing Field (KBFI ) and Seatac Intl airport ( KSEA ) flight lines in view at all times of the day and night. At approx 11:10 pm PST I witnessed a twin propeller Alaska airlines flight (I know the airplane and carrier from experience and flight paths) depart Seatac Intl. airport and fly due north before making a westward turn towards my location at the above address. When the airplane was almost directly overhead (approx 85-87 degrees), I witnessed what appeared to be a very bright red circular object/orb appear off the right wing of the plane. This bright red object followed the plane before I ran to the sliding door on our deck and called for my girlfriend to come witness this object and as she came outside, the object disappeared but during the time I witnessed the object it paralleled the airplane off the right wing in perfect alignment with the airplane in a westward direction before disappearing. My girlfriend and I were on the deck and as I am showing as well as describing what I saw to her, a very bright streak appeared directly overhead moving West to East in what I approximate to be the very same path the object I initially saw take with the airplane. This streak was very sudden and abrupt and travelling at extreme speed (I did NOT see an object with this "streak" whatever it was ) but found it to be coincidental considering what I had just witnessed.
April 19, 2015 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
North Seattle, WA
Driving home tonight all of a sudden there was this green and red thing in the sky. Was moving way to fast to be a plane or chopper. Made a sharp turn too. I was on HWY 99 at 132nd and this thing came from east To west. Looking like 4 balls joined together. 2 green and two red. I wanted to pull over In the middle of the road but by the time I did it was gone. :-(
April 18, 2015 · 5:45 AM · CYLINDER
Tacoma, WA
Seemed to be 1000 plus feet altitude. Unlighted, dark object, long, cylindrical---seemed solid. Quiet, did not seem to be propelling itself. At one point, around 2 minutes, it seemed to be shedding off lower portions of itself, disintegrating downward, but retained its solid shape afterward. It diminished in size, apparently moving north eastward toward Auburn.
April 17, 2015 · 5:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Bellevue, WA
It was a beautiful sunset over the Olympic Mountains and the sun was just disappearing into the clouds, instead of over the mountains. Then we saw quite clearly two small, connected, black inverted triangles drifting parallel to the ground, from North to South. Were they round I would have thought them balloons, though they were also moving too steadily and horizontally to be balloons. They were less than a mile away. They disappeared behind the neighbor’s house. I grabbed my camera and went to go see them when they would have popped out the other side given their trajectory, but they never emerged and we didn’t see them again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2015 · 9:42 PM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
At 21:42 I witnessed two white lights moving East by SE directly above my position. It is unclear whether they were from two separate crafts moving together, or a single, larger craft. Both lights faded from view as they reached the horizon.
April 16, 2015 · 9:38 PM · LIGHT
Yakima, WA
I went outside for a smoke and saw this bright circular light looking like a satellite but very much lower and very bright. It first went straight to the east and then it started moving like it was out of balance (drunk). Then coming from the west was a plane heading to Sea Tac and I thought was a near miss to the plane. I yelled if anyone else can see it but no response, so I ran in side for my girlfriend to run out, when I ran back it was gone, damn I should have stayed out the whole time. Also check the flight logs of SeaTac traffic and see if any passengers in that plane witness what I saw, someone on that plane had to see what I saw, have too!!! One more thing the light was on the whole time.
April 16, 2015 · 8:50 PM · CIRCLE
Woodinville/Redmond, WA
Was outside with girlfriend taking out the trash , when we both seen two lights in the sky moving with each other in motion. one light was extremely bright and circle shape 2nd light was orange and very dim both did not make a sound and as soon as I grabbed my cell camera to film it they both vanished at the same time with no clouds in the sky . Very sure they were not any type of airplanes . Witness provides no contact information. PD