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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
August 10, 2014 · 3:50 PM · EGG
Sea-Tac, WA
White or silver egg shaped craft with 2 black long thin arms protruding from midway of craft down at a 45 degree angle hovering at about 200 feet above I-5 and S 204th Street. Very windy at the time but did not effect its position. The sun was reflecting off of it. No windows. Just a smooth flawless surface about 30 feet from top to bottom. The 2 black antennas or arms were very long and pointed toward the ground. I lost site of it as I drove North.
August 9, 2014 · 7:51 PM · FORMATION
Vancouver, WA
Looking westward the first sighting was a black dot to the naked eye at appprox 60 degrees above ground level, almost as small a dot as the eye could see, blue sky with just some wispy cirrus clouds way up. Then a flash of reflected light off two solar panel type things as it rotated gave it a sense of being a satellite but then twenty to thirty more of the tiny tiny flashes of rotating panel type things in a swarm made us realize it was maybe low enough to be in the blowing wind, then maybe they were balloons? but they didn't move all in the same direction, though all were going geographically south. They seemed to school like fiish would. Based on the glint of light. Then, here were two more straight above us with yet that peculiar effect of almost leaving a dash of jet contail on their movement. But moving away also south like drifting with the others. The distance south is what seemed to remove them from view though we could see 747's leaving contrail further south, so either they were tiny drone size in a lower swarm or way higher. Is it possible for a cross-section of the opposite night sky, say, New York City in the dark on the opposite coast, to projecti itself and satellites onto our sky our cirrus clouds in the west? If you took a pin-hole camera of the eastern night sky view and projected it and every one of 30 satellites thru the pinhole onto our daylight sky that's what it could have been.
August 6, 2014 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Tukwilla, WA
While I was driving south on I-5 through western Washington at approximately 2 am on the morning of August 6th, 2014, an object flew over my car which I could not identify. I had just passed the exits for Southcenter Mall and SeaTac Airport a few minutes earlier. Although I only saw this object for a second at the very most, I do recall the image of it clearly, and the thoughts that raced through my mind at the time and shortly thereafter. The object was a bluish white sphere that seemed to have an internal light source. It was flying in almost the exact same direction as I was driving. As the object quickly moved away in front of me, it seemed to lose some of its blue tint and become more white, but there was still a definite blue tint to it. When I extend my arm fully and raise my thumb, I would say the object was twice the size of my thumb when it first appeared at the top edge of my windshield. By the time it vanished over the tree line, or the horizon, it seemed to be only half of its original size. I could not see any stars in the sky at this time, and I’m not sure if there was some cloud cover or there was just too much “city light” at this location. My first thought was “wow, this thing is close”. Immediately after this I was thinking “wow, it’s going to hit the ground”. (the object did seem to be losing altitude quickly). Before I even finished this second thought however, the object had already vanished from sight. There was no flash, sound, or other evidence to convince me it did hit the ground, so now I think it just flew so fast that it disappeared over the horizon. I was asking myself what this thing could have been, but I didn’t have anything to even compare it to. Then I asked myself what it was NOT. I’m sure it was not a plane or a jet of any sort, and I’m sure it was not a shooting star. At least not like any I have ever seen. This sighting happened 26 hours ago as I type this, and I’m still clueless as to what I actually saw flying over my car. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD
August 5, 2014 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Silverdale, WA
I was out looking up at the stars this morning, as my husband was about to go to work, I saw what I thought was a star, it was the same kind of light - but it was moving rather swiftly - It headed south east. I am not sure if it is a satellite, taking a look at the times for ISS satellite and as far as I can see on space tracker it was not that. It was very high as it did appear star like. There was no sound
August 4, 2014 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Seattle, WA
Looking south just after 9pm, noticed two bright orange lights moving east to west. They were separated by less than 5 degrees vertically and took about 1 minute to traverse about 25 degrees horizontally. They were approximately 10 degrees below the half moon. They appeared to lose brightness as they traversed the sky but remained clearly visible in the sliver of sky I was able to see. No sooner did the tandem lights disappear from my field of view than another single light appear traversing the same piece of sky at about the same position of the lower light in the tandem grouping. Same bright orange characteristic moving about the same speed. The apparent magnitude of these lights were brighter than the brightest planet I have ever seen. They were not airplanes as I saw an airplane in the same section of sky and was easily able to compare the events. I am an engineer working in aviation so know the difference. In fact, I am attributing these lights to satellites reflecting the sun but since I have never seen three satellites traversing the night sky almost simultaneously and at that magnitude of brightness, I felt like I should report the event.
August 3, 2014 · 2:13 AM · DIAMOND
Everett, WA
Witness: 1 driver, 46 year old woman. At the time of the sighting there were 1 or 2 other cars on the freeway. Location: Driving southbound I-5 in Everett, Wa at the 41st Street exit near Hewitt Ave. Looking southwest over the City of Everett, Wa. Time: 2:13 am Weather: Clear, no clouds approximately 68 degrees Duration: 3-4 seconds Object: Diamond shaped, a brilliant mint green color, made no sound Movement: Object observed coming straight down over the buildings, maintained its diamond shape and made a right angle turn south or down to the ground over the top of the buildings at approximately cloud level and disappeared. Picture: Driver came back to the location of the sighting took a picture, and amended the picture in PPT to illustrate sighting. Object and buildings added via PPT and photoshop.
August 2, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Arlington, WA
It appeared, then disappeared in about 4 seconds.
August 2, 2014 · 6:22 PM · SPHERE
Spokane, WA
A storm was approaching Spokane at 18:20pm, 8-2-2014, and the lights began to flicker in my house. I went outside (still daylight with clouds ) to observe the storm and noticed strong winds pushing to the Northeast and birds scattering around. Then a black shiny polished looking orb flies over in a perfect trajectory flying S.E. (like the ISS, I see it fly over at night alot) The elevation could be around 2 - 4 hundred feet. It could not have been affected by the wind as it seemed to be in an orbit like the ISS. Did not make a sound and I continued watching until it went out of sight in the far S.E. and I know it wasn't ISS because this was under the clouds, black and much larger. It did not appear to change in elevation during the 30 seconds it was viewable. Again it was black and had a shiny polished look to it. The size was not large from my perspective about the size of a half dollar at arm's length at its closest from my back yard it was just a bit east of my position in west Spokane but almost straight over so I got a good look at it. I watched it until it got smaller and smaller until it was no longer visible. We spoke via telephone with this witness, and we found hime to be both eloquent in his description of the sighting event, and sincere. PD
August 2, 2014 · 6:05 PM · FIREBALL
Spokane, WA
I was on my patio which faces south of 1800 W Cleveland, the wind was stating to blow a storm was coming in, then a pair of lights came up from the tree a block south, one was green and one was red they looked seperate but had the exact same movement. First I noticed it come from the south side of the tree, its a bushy tall tree so like 150 feet tall and sits in the back of a vacant home on Grace. The lights came half the distance closer to my patio at one point, staying at the same height then went back to the other side of the tree and went behind, then it went up real fast like it was propelled. I'm from England but moved here 12 years ago and have gotten used to heavy airplane and helicopter traffic and this was neither because it was only a block away and didn't hear anything. It went on for several minutes I thought it was longer but can't remember. It seems as though it was looking for something in the tree the way it went back and forth and behind it. The red and green lights were just glowing and basically and nothing else was seen. I find it hard to describe.
July 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Shriner Peak, Mt. Rainier National Park, WA
This happened on July 31st, 2014 at Shriner Peak in Mount Rainier National Park. I had hiked there with the intention to do a solo overnighter. Once I reached the hike summit, I set up my tent and left the rainfly off (without it, my tent was mesh on all sides) so I could see the stars . I was the only one there, so I set my tent up in the middle of a grass clearing to the left of the lookout. I watched the sunset in my tent, then laid down on my back. Once it turned dark at around 10pm, out of the corner of my right eye, I saw a floating light. I turned my head and saw a round shape with a convex curve on the upper/lower middle (kind of what you would think a generic UFO would look like) hovering maybe 150ft away from the ground. It had a light on it. The light was a warm light, not cool. Trailing behind it were two other hovering objects. They were not large, maybe the size of a smart car. I could not identify what they were and I was frozen with fear. They kept flying (it was more of a slower hover) in a pattern. They would make a pattern for a while, then leave, then come back again and make another pattern. This happened the entire night. I slowly tried to take out my camera (I was extremely scared) to film, but it would not focus in the dark. At one point, one of the objects hovered about 150ft directly over my tent and then flew toward Mt. Rainier (which wa! s straight away from my tent). When these things hovered, they made zero sound. He hovering was not extremely smooth, they would almost slightly bob up and down. They made their last pattern right before dawn. I packed up my stuff and ran back to my car. I drove to the nearest ranger station to ask if they had been testing any kind of equipment near Shriner Peak. The ranger said no, but that there was a military base near by. I do not know if that is accurate as I tried to research it, but didn’t come up with anything.
July 31, 2014 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Federal Way, WA
I was looking at the night's sky over the Tacoma area and watching what I thought was probably a satellite. I was watching it traverse the sky and all of a sudden it started getting brighter and brighter. It got brighter to the point that it was like having a flash light shown right in my face. A very fine white light, but extremely bright. Then, it suddenly changed direction and flew across the sky and out of my view literally within a second. The time was 2:45 a.m. on July 31st 2014.
July 30, 2014 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Quinault, WA
Was out near Quinault, Wa. Camping with family at North Fork campground. At 11:30 pm, we heard a jet in the distance, looked up and saw what looked like a military jet chasing a bright red orb. About an hour later, heading in the opposite direction, we heard the jet again, this time it was the same jet chasing 2 green bright orbs.
July 30, 2014 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. No photos sent, to the best of our knowledge. PD
July 29, 2014 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
On Tuesday July 29th at 4:30pm as I was driving N/B on Martin Luther King Way a reflection of light in the sky caught my attention. This was a beautiful sunny day with no clouds in the sky. I observed sunlight reflecting off of a round-smooth metallic (chrome) ball in the sky. It appeared to be hovering about 500 feet over Boeing field. As the object began moving very slowly to the N/W I could see it clearly. There were no markings on it and appeared to be perfectly smooth and chrome in color. It’s hard to judge the size because of nothing near it to compare to, but I’m guessing it was about the size of a house. As I watched the object move slowly to the N/W it seemed to “fade out” or blend into the sky (I could still see the shape of it). I continued watching it until it went completely out of view. I kept looking in the area to hopefully see it again. The round metallic object reappeared and began to slowly ascend straight up-then it just disappeared!
July 28, 2014 · 8:15 AM · OTHER
Shelton, WA
At approx. 8:15am PDT, I was sitting on the front porch having a smoke, and I looked toward the Olympic mountain chain to the west. I quickly spotted a slow-moving object, colored dark grey, and shaped like an old V2 rocket but upside-down. That is, the pointed "nose" was facing down and the "tail fins" were pointed skyward. The object slowly moved from my left to my right (NW or NNW). Distance appeared to be at least five miles and the object's airspeed appeared to be 150 to 200mph. When I first saw it, its azimuth was approx. 9°, and it appeared to slowly descend as my view of it became obstructed by a small stand of trees approx. 200' away; it never reappeared on the other side of the trees (probably because its rate of descent would have placed it near ground level and I do not have an unobstructed view of the ground from where I was positioned). No lights or exhaust plume were visible, and no sounds were audible (even taking into account the many seconds of delay there would have been between the object's first appearance and its subsequent disappearance).
July 27, 2014 · 11:45 PM · OTHER
Redmond, WA
I saw 2 slow moving lights (about 1/3 the speed of most satellites) in the sky, brighter than stars (not planes, way too high in the sky). There was no sound. They were traveling in tandem in a straight line (from the ground looking up) about 1 inch apart. They were traveling from the southwest to the northeast in direction. I went inside the house to get binoculars and a second observer. However because of various trees I was not able to require the objects again when I came back outside. I stayed outside for another hour and saw two different satellites go by. What I saw was much brighter than the two satellites and appeared to be lower in orbit. In that time I also saw two airline jets and one air plane. What I saw was definitely not jets, airliners or air planes.
July 27, 2014 · 1:00 PM · CIGAR
Port Townsend, WA
Driving along a large Long White Cigar Shaped object appeared stationary at tree top level angle of about 60 degrees about one mile high and two miles + or - away. First saw object at a distance then a few minutes later saw up very close. No wings or tail. It was similar to a blimp, but white metallic and longer maybe 200 feet long. Object had what appeared to be a flattened bottom side and was fuzzy looking near end of a 4 second sighting then disappeared into tree line. Unable to find another view trees blocked out object. Wife heard me exclaim; "What the bleap is that!!" Turned around in car object was no longer visible.
July 27, 2014 · 1:35 AM · OVAL
Seattle, WA
Tonight I saw something that I cannot explain. I was pulling up to a stoplight and the light was turning red. If I wasn't looking up at the traffic light I would have missed this. It was lit up and moving low and fast. Maybe 200-300 ft up (or less) and at a slight angle downward. I thought it was a helicopter at first, but by the time my brain told me so this thing was gone out of sight. I thought I might have imagined it until I got the the stop light line and another car with two people inside it were rolling down their window, pale and looking a bit freaked out, asking "did you SEE that?".
July 26, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
Standing on my front porch, looking east a formation of red lights, three of them, formed a line over as though they were moving together. It was the shape of a saucer and it hovered and blinked as more red lights showed up in the sky just a short distance away. As we were watching multiple white lights in triangle formation popped up out of nowhere. They hovered as the sounds of thunder echoed through the sky yet there were no clouds no lightening, the booming sounds continued for ten minutes consecutively every 30 seconds. There were no flashes in the sky until the sounds were done then randomly they started to light up the sky. As the sounds stopped the lights continued to flash in a pattern and we could hear helicopters and see their flashing lights as they seemed to investigate the red lights. After all this in the dense wooded area one of the red lights landed on the ground and pulsated for some time until disappearing.
July 26, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Federal Way, WA
I was looking up at mars and saw a single light moving left to right and up and shot up.
July 22, 2014 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Eglon (Whidbey Island), WA
I was out on the deck around midnight and noticed a very bright light across the bay from Whidbey Island, looking towards Eglon, Washington. At first, i thought it was a light house since the light got bright and faded out, but then I noticed it was so strong that it illuminated the water. It was moving in a south to north pattern, it was NOT high in the sky, it was like right in front of the trees. I grabbed my camera and took 3 photos. The first two just show a bright, dot or something with a tail, but the 3rd photo shows a perfect circle in orange, and when blown up, there are several shades of color…
July 18, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Des Moines, WA
then 5 more did the same thing.then 5 more did the same then one came up slowed shot up like the rest of them. but this one whet so high up it looked like a satilght. but it looked metal gray. we seat between fort lewis/mc cord and seatac air port know plane were tacking off. but after it stop, the planes whent back to normale. The objects were white red some were hire then ethers
July 15, 2014 · 11:50 PM · OVAL
Demming, WA
My son and I were outside looking at the stars at our cabin near Mt. Baker in WA. The sky was very dark and we could see a patch of the sky through the trees. We were setting up a small telescope and talking when the super bright light appeared. It was right next to what we thought was a planet (as it was very bright). I did not notice the moving light before but now it was brighter than the planet. It was moving slowly in a circular motion and definitely was not an airplane. It was going back and forth and then started to fade and went in a line away from the planet and we lost it in the trees. I was still going when we lost it. We did not see it with the telescope and we could not get a picture of it, as it was too far away.
July 13, 2014 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mukilteo, WA
1st siting we saw an orange glowing orb flying from west to south east direction at a slow rate of speed slower than an airplane. There was no noise. About 10 minutes later we saw another orange orb with a white center fly the same direction but closer. The size relative to the moons size that night was approximately 15%. Both times we saw it duration was approximately 3 minutes.