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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.
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June 22, 2014 · 1:54 PM · SPHERE
Aberdeen, WA
Sorry last message had wrong date and my friends we're outside at 1:52pm, Sunday, June 22st, at that moment we notice two rainbows around the sun and underneath and rays of heat. So I decided to take snapshot pictures and noticed an anomaly of something perfectly sphere shaped absorbing heat from the sun and moved many times in zigzag zag pattern in the snapshot pictures and emitting red belts around it the sphere in less then one minute it disappeared I got 5 pictures of something brighter or ad bright as the sun .
June 21, 2014 · 10:30 PM · TEARDROP
Battle Ground, WA
Three orange lights flying in a single file line about one mile between each light. traveling about 1000 ft above ground turned.
June 21, 2014 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Freeland, WA
On 6/21/14, 4 adults were watching the western horizon to observe an ISS flyby.. (ISS is the International Space Station.) It was visible in our area (Whidbey Island) at 9:49pm for 4 minutes. It became visible in the WSW at 11 degrees above the horizon and departed at 11 degrees S. We could see it fly over the Olympics. We were on the west side of Whidbey Island, on a bluff overlooking the water on the south end of the island. It is about 30 miles from the Naval Air Station. Three objects appeared, consecutively, about a minute or so after we watched the ISS, but they were overhead. As soon as one disappeared in the southern tree line, another appeared from the north. The objects were oval shaped. From below, we didn't see them as 3 dimensional. They were orange, reddish, almost flame colored with no contrail or flame trail. Seemed to be like a low flying aircraft. We fully expected the first one, when noticed, to be a "search" helicopter with spotlight. However, it was shortly followed by a second and then a third object. All three appeared to have the same overhead trajectory and followed each other at ~30 sec intervals. Too close to have been the same object circling. Their flight pattern was straight, with no change in speed or direction. The eerie part was their silence. There was no sound detected from any of the objects, which seemed strange, since the slightest noise gets amplified over/around water. The observers were 2 adult males and 2 adult females, ages 66-70. All with college degrees. Unfortunately, no photos were taken.
June 21, 2014 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Bremerton, WA
I thought at first it was an f16 or an f18, but there was no trail behind it, appeared for about 14 seconds and then disappeared. We spoke with the witness, and he reported that the light was distinctly yellow in color. PD
June 19, 2014 · 11:37 AM · OTHER
Snoqualmie Pass, WA
On our return trip to Yakima from Seattle, my wife was taking pictures of the mountains as we travelled over Snoqualmie Pass. That night at home she was reviewing her pictures and asked me what the V shaped object in her picture was. When I first looked at it, I told her she had the window up and she immediately said it was down. I then put my reading glasses on and saw that there were clouds between the object and the camera. I then told her that is what is called a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 16, 2014 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Clarkston, WA
The day before, on Father's day, I was over at my dad's house and we were cooking outside. Above the house we spotted what looked like a VERY large bird hovering over his house. It appeared to be roughly 100 meters up, based on comparisons to surrounding trees, and if that estimate was accurate I would guess that this bird had to have had a wingspan equivalent to a small single engine plane. What was very odd was the way it flew, hovering, very small wing movements at the very tips, and when it did fly away it basically headed directly east and at a very high rate of speed. There were 4 witnesses total for that sighting. My dad mentioned he had seen something similar where he works, only when he spotted it previously it spiraled straight up until it was out of sight. Apparently there have been other sightings of this thing in the area as well. The next day I was laying out in my yard and I spotted the same thing, looked like it was flying at about the same height, very slowly passing from W/SW to the East. I had my son run and grab my binoculars so I could get a better look at it. I have good quality Bushnell binoculars and I was able to track it pretty easily. Again, I am guessing it was roughly 100 meters in the air, same relative size, based on observation of the large trees we have around here. With my binoculars focused I got a pretty good look at it, and it was not a bird. This object had wings similar to a bird's, but again only moved the tips and very rarely. It's midsection was cigar shaped, very pointed both front and rear. We have large cranes and large ravens in the area, but ravens have a fanned tail when they ride thermals and cranes trail their legs. This was completely symmetrical, no trialing legs and no fanned tail. By my guess, based on the time of day and relative heat and wind, it pro! bably was not actually riding thermals either, it would have been too high up. My son and I watched it for about 3-5 minutes as it passed over. What was very odd is that it sped up dramatically once I but the binoculars on it, almost like it "knew" it was being watched. It disappeared to the east fairly quickly. Of note, the animals in the area (dogs, horses, goats, etc.) all seemed very perturbed when this was in the air...making lots of noise. I have been watching since then to see if I can spot it again and I have asked around locally and I can account at least 10 other people who have either seen the same object, or something almost exactly the same. Of interest too, when time permits my wife and I spend a lot of time stargazing, and we have also seen repeated appearances of unexplainable bright white lights that tend to travel southwest to northeast, we have reported this before and we have had numerous witnesses with us when we spot these things. On the Saturday evening before I spotted the bird we were out stargazing and watched what appeared at first to be a satellite pass over to the west of us slightly, moving from due north towards the south. However, roughly 20 seconds after we spotted it the object "split"...as in, there was a bright flash, and then there were suddenly two objects..one moving south at a much more rapid speed, and a brighter object moving north at a rapid speed. Both grew very bright after the flash and faded out. Logically, I suppose it could have been a meteor or space debris breaking up at re-entry but I have witnessed both of those types of things numerous times and the way this! object acted was quite different. We have also witnessed numerous other odd lights, mostly they seem to appear above the mountains to the north...they hover a bit, then zigzag around rapidly, sometimes they descend with a motion that is like a falling leaf, sometimes they shoot straight upward. I have an interest in ufology and have read numerous books on the subject, and what concerns me is that we have a personal set of sightings spanning over two years in the same area with multiple witnesses. Now, we are seeing a large "bird-like" object and the sightings continue. Every time we witness something like this we note the behavior of the animals in the area, most times they are very obviously disturbed. We have had instances of power anomalies in the neighborhood, and at times there have been areas around here that seem to emit a pervasive feeling of fear for no reason...all of this is strikingly similar to events reported by people in West Virginia in the Ohio River Valley in the 60's, as documented in several books but most notably John Keel's "The Mothman Prophecies". The events there culminated in the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967. So many of the things we have seen parallel the reports in that book that it is hard to believe it! is simply coincidence. Bearing logical explanations in mind (the bird object could be some kind of drone, the lights could also, etc.) we are trying to keep an open but skeptical mind about these things, but the repeated incidents and so forth lead me to believe that this bears deeper investigation (which I will continue to do as an amateur).
June 16, 2014 · 11:30 AM · OVAL
Spokane, WA
I was waiting at the Hastings Park and Ride bus Terminal in North Spokane. I was waiting for the 11:55 am bus headed north to my home in Deer Park. I estimate the time to be about 11:30 am. I was facing north and I happen to look up at the sky to see a very large, white object heading east to west at height and with speed. What surprised me was the speed it seemed to travel and the size it was. Normally, when one sees a plane at that height the plane is small, hard to see, and moving at a speed that appears slow to our relative perspective. This white colored object, however, was 3 to 4 time larger that a plane would be at that height and is travel through a large cloud break at a very fast pace. Much faster than any convention planes I’ve ever seen. Oddly enough it also left no condensation trail of any kind. I would normally discount this as the sun reflecting off an airplane but I can still not account for the size of this thing, the lack of any type of condensation trail, and the speed it was moving at.
June 14, 2014 · 10:42 PM · OTHER
Auburn, WA
A few months back my neighbor and I were on my front porch, when a hang-glider shaped silent craft that looked like it had some cloaking device soared right above us at 50' and then it was followed by 7 helicopters that showed up 5-10 minutes after we were freaking out about what we had just witnessed.
June 13, 2014 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Battle Ground, WA
Night sky, partly cloudy, observed a globe shaped object, like a snow globe. Looked like there was a flame in the middle of it. It progressed from the northwest headed south east. It moved slowly, then turned directly east, increased elevation rapidly and disappeared into the sky. Strangest thing I have ever seen
June 12, 2014 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
East Wenatchee, WA
I have tracked many satellites but this was not one. It was traveling almost north-to-south.
June 10, 2014 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Vantage, WA
The two craft were close together hovering around slowly. As we passed them, our view was covered up by the hills so we only observed them for a few seconds. Turned around as quickly as we could find an exit and went back but they were gone. One person in our car observed part of a 3rd craft before the rest of us saw the other two. I could detect one non-smooth side on the crafts, lines like construction seams. This happened between 10 and 10:30 pm. So far, I haven't read any other similar descriptions in other observations.
June 10, 2014 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Puyallup, WA
It was around midnight when I went outside to smoke a cigarette. I looked up and saw a bright white light following along the same general route as a previous craft I reported earlier was traveling. Almost looked like a shooting star but wasn’t quite as fast and the light trail lasted longer than most shooting stars I've ever seen. The object disappeared into the clouds, headed towards the moon. No noise. Seemed closer to earth than the stars in the sky did. This shooting white orb, in comparison, was about as size of an eraser on the end of a pencil, if held up to the sky with eyes squinted.
June 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Goldendale, WA
The weather was warm and the children and I decided to camp outside on our trampoline for the night in our backyard. There were clear skies that night. The stars were brilliant as we lay on the trampoline. The children and I witnessed about 100, what appeared to be 'stars,' moving about the skies. They moved sporadically and they would get brighter and then appear to burn out and disappear after moving around the skies for several seconds. There was one after another. They would appear and carry on in the same fashion. We called them 'bobbles'. This went on about an hour and a half, in which we then decided to sleep in the house instead. This was the week before the war in Israel started with Hamas.
June 9, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Puyallup, WA
The sun was setting, the sky was blue and there were clouds speckled amongst it all. I had been staring at a black object along the horizon for a few seconds, absent-mindedly, before asking my boyfriend “is that a plane or a bird?” I still wasn’t really thinking anything though. It was like it hadn’t hit me how unusual this object in the sky was, yet. My boyfriend stated that it looked like a big balloon from one of the car dealerships nearby. I thought about it for a second as I continued to stare but when I noticed that it was moving along the horizon at a steady, slow-paced, straight-lined course I began to think otherwise. The UFO seemed to shape-shift from almost circular-looking to flat and triangular-kind of pyramid-esq. The craft began to slowly ascend, I could see more of its energy field (which surrounding it in its entirety-the energy/light looked like a fan on high speed) the farther it traveled. It took quite a while to begin looking smaller, but it disappeared about anywhere from 3-10 minutes after it appeared (or so it seemed, I hadn’t looked at the time). My boyfriend went to grab some binoculars and told me to take some photos while he was gone, I took about 10 photos but the craft showed up in none of them even though it was still in plain sight/large enough to have shown up. Through the binoculars there was a visible light source underneath the UFO. Absolutely no noise what-so-ever. Headed towards the moon.
June 8, 2014 · 4:25 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, WA
Strange object that I thought at first was a plane in the sky east of Auburn. Flashed light like it was turning and catching the reflection of the sun. Too small to be a plane but seems to be at a planes altitude. It traveled south for awhile and then stopped and hovered. Tried to figure out if it was a helicopter or maybe a remote controlled toy by its movements. Seriously too high in the sky to be either.
June 8, 2014 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
Tacoma, WA
My husband and I were walking along a boardwalk that follows the Ruston Way waterfront in Tacoma, Wa. I happened to notice an object that I first thought was a balloon but i realized that it couldn't be that because it was too high up and was stationary. Airplanes were passing underneath, so if they fly at cruising altitude of 35000 miles than this was much higher. From the naked eye, I couldn't make out a shape but after I took a picture and was able to zoom in, I saw that it had two parts to it. Bell shaped on one end and attached to it, an egg shape. It looks whitish grey against the blue background of the sky. We watched it for about 20 min. I went to use the bathroom and when I came back, I couldn't find it again. We have looked at the photo that was sent to our Center, and the anomalous object in the picture appears to us to be an airliner. PD
June 8, 2014 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Puyallup, WA
I couldn’t sleep no matter how hard I tried, although I am a psychic medium and suffer from frequent sensitivity related insomnia, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being watched/spoken to in ways I have never felt/heard. I went outside around 2 am with my boyfriend, who I forcefully woke up to come with me as I smoked a cigarette when I witnessed 2 Reddish orbs slowly orbiting through the night sky about 10 minutes apart, in parallel areas of the sky. No noise. They weren’t like satellites or like shooting stars…I stared at them until they disappeared behind the clouds surrounding the moon. They weren’t much larger in size than the normal bright white stars' they were moving around, stayed in one line of orbit-didn’t bounce around or make any turns. No blinking, no light trail, no shift in apparent size. When I say they were moving extremely slow I mean I watched each one go by for over 2 minutes each. They both closely resembled mars in shape and color.
June 8, 2014 · 12:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Eastsound (Orcas Island), WA
Our cabin on Orcas Island looks north toward Canada, to the west is Vancouver Island and other smaller BC islands to the northwest. On June 8th, at approximately 12:30 AM, while talking to my daughter, from the large picture window, I noticed an extremely bright object moving east across the sky. The night was calm, very quiet, and mostly clear. The moon was waxing gibbous with illumination at approximately 65%. Upon seeing the object, I instinctively ran to the deck for a better look. My daughter followed and we woke up her beau from his sleep-to-snore fest and he also observed. Simply stated, we were blown away. We began to run down every possible scenario of what the object could be and nothing fit. So in awe, we watched as the massive, brightly shining object moved east across the sky and eventually out of range. The object was not in the distance, in fact, it flew just above us. It is hard to describe the nature of its shine - imagine Venus, at her brightest dropped to 15,000 ft. and traveled from west to east across the sky. It seemed to emit beams (atmospheric illusion?). The bright shine was so dramatic that that it made it impossible to discern its form but it was not round, if anything, it was oblong. It did not blink or twinkle and the form, beams and all, did not change as it moved across the sky. The object was shinning silver tones with golden hues and the "beams" appeared to have gold tones as well. As was the night, the object was dead silent - Orcas Island is surrounded by water so that ruled out one convenient explanation. Also, unusual was that the object did not fly in a continuous straight line, it would also move laterally and also in a squiggly manner. The movements were subtle yet discernible. The sighting lasted apx. 2 min. and then it flew out of visual range. We work hard, like a beer or two, do fun things and keep it clean. We reject cults and simplistic, knee-jerk answers to complex problems. Ages 20-50. We have spoken via telephone with the witness, and she seems to us to be quite eloquent, and sober-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent, and highly-reliable witness. PD
June 7, 2014 · 11:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Sumner, WA
Saturday evening June, 7th, 2014, I went out to dinner by myself. I got home around 11pm. It was warm, clear sky with visible stars. I think I saw only one thing in the sky. It was about 11:05 pm. I was sitting on the patio having a smoke while the dog and cat sat with me. I noticed what I figured was a plane come from the east. I figured it was a small plane from one of the homes near Lake Tapps or Buckley area as it was flying pretty low. I did not hear a plane sound though. It was cruising at a pretty good speed. I grabbed my binoculars and could see a green light at one end and a red at the other which again is what made me think it was a small plane although I could not actually see a shape. I set the binoculars on the table in front of me and looked back to the sky and could not find it again. That seemed strange cuz it was not flying ‘that’ fast and the sky was clear. I searched and searched. Grabbed the binoculars again but still could not find it. I put my cigarette out and suddenly seen a flashing light coming in my direction now and it had a beam emitting from it. It was a weird beam in that I could see it coming from the object and followed its trajectory but it fazed out in the middle of the trajectory and it could hardly be seen as it aimed closer to the ground. The object went right over my apartments but the beam seemed slanted and then they were gone. I’m not sure what it was but as it passed over the apt. it hardly made a sound.
June 7, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Sedro Woolley, WA
My boyfriend was yelling at me from the backyard. He ran into the house, and said come and look at the light in the sky. I followed him out to the front yard. Then we walked into the street, and i saw a bright red orange fireball. At first, I thought it was a meteor, but it had no tail. It was the brightest object in the sky. It was a constant red orange color. It didn't pulsate. Best way I could describe it is, a cross between an orb, and the color of a fireball. I have never seen anything like it before. It was traveling from the south to the north. It turned heading slightly northeast before fading, and appeared to reassemble a star. Then got bright, before fading away again. Another bright red orange object appeared in the south before the other one disappeared. It was traveling north, but took a different path, more northwest. There was an airplane in the sky with flashing lights. Traveling from east to west. It is impossible for me to guess how far away, or how big it was. The second ball of light faded, and got bright again. Then disappeared behind the mountain to the north of us. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) The event happened on June 7, 2014. Sorry about that. I wrote my birthday for some strange reason. ((END ADDENDUM)) Date is flawed. PD
June 7, 2014 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Sedro Woolley, WA
I was sitting on the back porch and notice an object that was orange in color, looked like a fireball, moving from the south to the north. I yelled to my girlfriend to come look. I went into the house and had her go out front with me to see this light. We were there and watched it go out of sight, then another came into view travelling from the south to north. The second one was following a different path, and like the first vanished from sight behind the mountain to our north. There was no sound generated from these two objects. There was only one aircraft in the vicinity with blinking red and white lights. This aircraft was travelling from the east to the west. I want to add that I do NOT believe in these things, however, I thought I should report it. We see many aircraft and I work on an airport and see many different aircraft. In my years, I have never seen anything like these two objects. Adding these lights were constant and not flashing. Towards the end of the visual on both objects, the light seemed to fade, then get bright again, and then fade away. It almost looked as if it were a meteor coming into our atmosphere, but was in our atmosphere. Anyways, I thought I would report on this sighting.
June 7, 2014 · 9:46 PM · CIRCLE
Purdy, WA
Travelling home on Highway 16 I noticed what I thought was a helicopter coming towards me at about 1,000 a.g.l. On second look the yellow color of the craft was unlike anything I've seen. I looked out the window of the truck to get a look at it from behind and still only saw a yellow color plus a little darker color in the center. There were no position lights, anti-collision lights or any other light. The speed of the craft was similar to a helicopter. Heading was south to south west. Visibility was great this evening and sun had set. The yellow color was constant from when I first saw it to seeing it pass. The yellow color was similar to the color of a fire. I'm a pilot with about 360 hours. Flightpath was the same altitude and heading.
June 7, 2014 · 11:50 AM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
At 11:50 am on June 7th, 2014, while laying on a lounge chair on my back deck, I noticed a round metallic object in the sky to the east of me. It looked to be just below some white clouds and was moving slowly to the South. The object appeared to be over the south end of Boeing field off the I-5. I observed it for approximately 3-4 minutes, as it moved to the South over South Center shopping area, at which time it disappeared into the clouds. At one point, while I was observing the object, a commercial plane flew by from the North and looked to be fairly close to the object. I did capture this sighting on my IPhone at full zoom (466Megabits). The object was round in shape, metallic looking and appeared to reflect the sun. I will also say that, to me, it appeared to move in a deliberate fashion from the North to the South. Conditions: Daytime, about noon Mostly sunny day A few big white clouds Unobstructed views to the East, South and West I would be happy to share the video and speak with anyone who is interested, as long as my name remains anonymous. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be both eloquent, and serious-minded, in his description of the sighting. PD
June 6, 2014 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Yakima, WA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Possible hoax?? PD