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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
December 18, 2023 · 4:57 PM · DISK
Kelso, WA
The UFO was a disc shaped object and it was black.It was moving smoothly side to side then it vastly moved away. It looked like it was going around 500 miles per hour. It was close to 600 feet in the air. There was only one UFO but there where 2 viewers of looking at it.
December 17, 2023 · 5:10 AM · TRIANGLE
Lynnwood, WA
We were outside trying to get into vehicle that had keys stuck inside when we noticed a black craft flying very low and it had two white lights on ends with red light underneath all flashing like crazy. It make very little sound for how big it was. I tried to get video of it but my camera would not focus on it. It flew slow , and went east until we almost could not see it and then it did a 180 degree turn and decent down into the hillside . [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
December 16, 2023 · 9:08 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
I was sitting on the balcony of a 3rd story apartment, watching stars and planes. I noticed some gentle movement in my peripheral. I had to focus a bit on what I was seeing. Five to six round, equally sized orbs/circles were gently descending. Their movement seemed gradual. They seemed almost transparent at first, and I struggled to trust whether I was seeing anything at all. Perhaps a slight grey outline to each orb. They almost reminded me of a necklace in that they seemed to be unified in the way they were moving. As I saw it, the space between each was less than the size of one orb. And I the space in between seemed to be closing as they descended. The ends of the “necklace” were wiggling the most. The formation passed out of view, blocked by my roof. It felt that they had passed over my three-story apartment. If so, these were small orbs, perhaps less than five feet in diameter. But perhaps my depth perception was off. It took me perhaps a minute to stand up and move so that I could peer into the direction they went. I had felt fear. I also want to be upfront that I have been reading a lot about UFOs and feel that I am perhaps in a suggest-able state.
December 7, 2023 · 11:27 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalGig Harbor, WA
The object was the size of a large star. It was blinking and pulsating rapidly, and it was changing colors. It emitted all colors of the rainbow. It was not moving, and a shape could not be discerned. It could be mistaken for a star, but I have never seen a star behave this way. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 27, 2023 · 4:35 PM · LIGHT
Brinnon, WA
Lasted approximately 7 minutes, hovered, unmoving, the top faded out first, then the middle, then the bottom
November 26, 2023 · 5:56 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedBattle Ground, WA
One flashed like a lighter trying to be lit. Would flash, go dark, move, and then flash again a further distance away. And repeat [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 25, 2023 · 6:50 PM · CIRCLE
Friday Harbor, WA
I was laying playing hide and go seek with my friends at the restaurant I looked up and I was looking at the stars it looks like they were was there a star there and then a big bright light and then my friend saw it but it was like bright light and then it went away and it was like a blink of an eye was so fast and then it was gone there's nothing there
November 25, 2023 · 1:22 PM · DISK
Brinnon, WA
Cool, Coldish day. Reasonably clear. Vehicle backdropped by clouds. Enough highway noise to mask any sound. No sonic boom. 500 mph? In zoom appears to have field around it.
November 24, 2023 · 11:05 AM · TRIANGLE
Battle Ground, WA
At Approximately 11:05 am while driving south towards town a extremely shiny object was floating in the sky, as we drove a few moments pass and the object started to move sw, started to video object and the object started to move more west then, it did a 180 degree turn and was no longer shining and was a grayish triangle shape. And then disappeared completely. Duration was between 5min and 10 min of sighting.
November 23, 2023 · 11:36 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
At approximately 11:30 PM I looked out my window and noticed an object blinking multiple lights. First I thought it was a drone. The object appeared about about a mile away when I first noticed it. I retrieved my field binoculars, took them outside. What I see is beautiful, multicolored bright, flashing lights all over the outside of the object. Deep deep blues, gold, red, silver, green and white colors. The object remains in the same spot for over an hour now, no noise at all. I live in a quiet neighborhood, if it was making noise I would have heard it. I also thought it might have been a Helicopter, I looked on flight aware and did not see any aircraft in that area. But it might have been masked also. It was one of the most beautiful objects I've seen in the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
November 23, 2023 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Buckley, WA
While walking from my house to my Garage, saw a bright red (almost glowing) light over the tree line to the northeast. In the center of the light was an even brighter white light which almost had an amber tint, like incandescent light. The light appeared unusually low and moving very slowly, almost as if floating. At first I thought it might be a low flying helicopter but it made no sound and there were no flashing lights or spotlight beam. As it slowly moved over my property, it seemed to be gaining altitude rapidly, but not moving rapidly. I grabbed some binoculars and watched it for 30-45 seconds through the binoculars. There was no shape that I could see, just the light, which was now moving to the southwest and seemed to be much higher than when I first saw it. Then it suddenly disappeared, as if you had just shut the light off. The total elapsed time from first sighting was 2-3 minutes. The sky was clear, moon was bright, and some stars visible. This is a rural area with very little light pollution. It is also located under the flight path for both SeaTac airport and the Joint Base Lewis-McChord base, which is about 25 miles SW of my location. I see commercial flights daily, and regularly see military craft including low flying single and double rotor helicopters (which are extremely loud) and occasionally large multi engine military transport planes. This was unlike anything I have ever seen before.
November 18, 2023 · 4:50 PM · SPHERE
Blaine, WA
It was early evening on November 18, 2023 and my wife and I were sitting in our living room watching the news. Our leather sofa sits perpendicular to our ten-foot living room window which is on the north side of the house facing the US/Canada border. There is quite often activity along the border with drones and helicopters doing whatever it is they are supposed to do so we seldom pay much attention. However, that evening as we sat watching, my attention was drawn to a round bright light slightly higher than the tree line on my neighbor’s property about a half mile away. At first we thought it could be a helicopter but the light was larger than any we’ve seen before and it was pointed straight at our direction not searching the ground. We watched it for several minutes, musing between each other that maybe it was an airplane. But, then logic kicking in and we could not understand how a plane intending to land at a nearby airport (there is one in Abbottsford and one in Bellingham but neither are that close to us), would be holding such a low and, seemingly, fixed position. Finally, with curiosity getting the best of me, I got off the couch and walked to the window to get a better view. As soon as I made the window, with my wife still watching from the couch, the large round light began to retreat away from me, as it were, and the light grew smaller and smaller. It took maybe five seconds for it to become very small and then it took a 90 degree turn upwards and continued rising behind some misty clouds until it came to a stop and took the form of a red and white blinking light. It remained stationary in the sky and we shut the curtains.
November 16, 2023 · 5:38 PM · RECTANGLE
Burbank, WA
I was driving and saw bright lights that appeared to hover over the side of the freeway. I was on the phone with my dad and hung up because I wanted to film it. It seemed like a low plane at first but quickly I realized I was approaching it, and it wasn’t moving. It was crazy. When I passed it going 40 mph in a 70 I saw the side of it. It was not flat like a drone but more ball shaped? Maybe rectangle? But not flat. It had volume. And it was very large? Truck sized at least. And silent. I pulled over and started filming again and it just started moving away from me opposite direction, along highway. I tried to zoom in on it but it’s very hard to tell in video. It seemed to have two big circles on the back of it, inside where the light was coming from. And that’s the direction it moved. Like big jet engines on the back is what it made me think of. But they weren’t lit up and it was silent. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
November 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was standing near a south facing window in my house in Northern Pend Oreille County WA. On 13 November around 11pm I saw three very bright Lights that looked like very bright “out of focus” stars in a horizontal line each was about 6 degrees spacing along the ecliptic in the direction of SWW. I thought for a moment that I should take a photo but realized the lights would not make a good photo. They did not seem to be moving. I debated on waking my husband up and instead went to bed. I told my husband about this the next morning and he mentioned that after looking on stelerium that Orion’s belt was in that area but it was not in a horizontal line. Jupiter was visible farther to the west. On the 14th and 15th I noticed military aircraft circling the area south of our house.
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
Did not see craft was in home when green blue light like a scanner came into home and all of outside too scary also saw something big floating outside home thru drapes .
November 9, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Anacortes, WA
I spotted five round, glowing red craft hovering over the Skagit Valley, when looking eastbound from Fidalgo Island. They did not move. All stayed in formation and kept an even distance from one another. There were two, noticeably larger ones of similar size to each other and three smaller ones around the same size. An aircraft passed by during this time, but they did not react to the aircraft.
November 8, 2023 · 9:32 PM · CHEVRON
Longview, WA
Another party and I were outside discussing the stars. We simultaneously noticed the craft above. The craft made no noise and was traveling at a low speed in the sky. It was almost the color of the the night sky, although a few shades lighter. Said craft then traveled southwest towards downtown and blended in with the lighter pitch of the city lights. The event was approximately 45 seconds in duration at approximately 2132 hours.
November 8, 2023 · 8:23 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
After dropping off a friend at his house in northern Everett, WA, while still sitting in my car, I saw the objects through my open window towards the south. There were three bright white lights in the sky approximately 35-40 degrees above the horizon. The three lights were in a non-equilateral formation and slowly moving independently of each other. They were much brighter and larger in the sky than any star, planet, or satellite I have seen. Based on the brightness and apparent distance, they seemed too close together to be landing lights on three separate planes and too far apart to be lights from a single plane. They also did not resemble flares in any way. I watched them for about 1-2 minutes before pulling away and for some odd reason I did not think to take a photo or a video. Once I got home, I saw on Facebook that 2 other people who live in the area saw the exact same objects and one of those people took a good video of the objects while driving in the same area that I had been in when I saw them. After thinking for awhile at home, I remembered that about 30 more to an hour before the sighting, I had been sitting in a church in downtown Everett, WA and I had heard the sound of a distant military jet. It stood out to me because I am in that area a lot and I have never heard any kind of plane in that area before. Some additional information about me: - I have spent many years enjoying recreational astronomy. I am familiar with stars, planets, etc. - I have previously witnessed many satellites in the sky including StarLink satellites. - I grew up right next to an airport with flights coming and going directly over my house just above the tree tops. - I have spent years educating myself about the space and aviation industry. I am pretty capable of identifying aircraft and rocket launches. Note: Attached photos are extracted from a video taken by another nearby observer within minutes of my sighting of the same objects.
November 8, 2023 · 6:29 PM · FORMATION
Seattle, WA
I don’t think they were airplanes, but there were many lights above the horizon moving individually. It wasn’t close to the airport, and there were planes I could see around.
October 31, 2023 · 7:58 PM · SPHERE
Port Angeles, WA
My son says Mom, what’s that and I look up to see about 7 round white orb looking objects traveling in a straight line formation but, as they approach the big dipper "handle", they changed formation into almost a V-shape, and they disappeared. No noise, no wings, no smoke. I tried to get my phone one but, they were gone. It would be easier to draw a picture of what I saw to explain it better. I tried to check satellite websites for any launches (I've seen the satellites in the sky when they launch, and it was nothing like that). I tried to check for any possible military training because we live next to a small coast guard base and 3hrs away from Joint Base Lewis McCord military base but, I couldn't find anything saying that they had training that night. Also, I've seen/heard a lot of military aircraft fly by, and these were completely silent. If I wasn't looking up, I would have completely missed them. The only noise was from other people on the street saying, “Oh my god, what is that!”. I waited to report this because I assumed an article would come out saying they had satellites, trainings, or something to explain what I saw. Obviously, I'm no expert but, I know what I saw. It's been a week and I'm still checking for more information. I'm sure you have way more resources than I do to confirm any sort of explanation and I would love to learn your conclusion! *It's not letting me upload my video or picture. I can provide this if this gets investigated. Thank you for your time.
October 31, 2023 · 12:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Mount vernon, WA
Too high to see a shape but below the clouds. I took notice because the sun was reflecting erratically off of it and was very bright. Unlike it would on a plane. Though it moved about as fast a plane would be moving at that altitude so I thought ok maybe a plane until. It was heading west at first for about 1 and a half minutes then took a sudden turn to the north east for a minute. It then took a turn to the north east for a minute then again to the north until I could not see it anymore. Not 5 minutes later a military highflyer left a white stream across the sky headed the same direction. Not much of a sighting I guess but I really don't think it was just a plane. Wish I had more to report.
October 27, 2023 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Tacoma, WA
I saw a "bright light", from East to west flying straight, faster than any movie. It appeared to be under its own power, no noise, but with the speed it had, AND going straight, AND low, right over my head, I knew I'd seen a UFO. I was thinking, no one can ever question it now, we have company!
October 21, 2023 · 7:44 PM · OTHER
Spokane, WA
@ approx: 19:44hrs as I were doing not a thing specific to anything, just sitting and ping! up overhead high altitude (above 20,000ft say) from the N -dir- did fly a single dimmer, (in comparison to prior reports) by observation, spark! it flew in a mostly S.E. -dir- veered to starboard (RT) -noticable- and continued on. It started to 'dissolve' IMO which has presented prior to indicate that the craft is preparing to blip! out of sight. This particular craft did not. It flew on a bit further then as they typically do in their subtle nuanced way, demonstrated an intense glow! all at once, very very quickly!! followed by a dimmer yet as subtle glow! muted in appearance fast fade away! and then blip! gone... Followed up by at approx: 19:50hrs did fly a second single dimmer spark! from the W to overhead from my seated, static position on Terra Firma facing in a usual S.E. -dir-. It flew on its trajectory JRA (Just Rolling Along) in the early dark nighttime sky until out of my observable view. I did not get up off the deck and give visual pursuit... -fin- * in closing this report I did wish to add a particular 'thing' I've noticed prior during the time these more recent events reported on here that was absent last nite during this event. And that was a peculiar triangle pattern of stars, up high, not atmospherically high and typically directly above from my static position on Terra Firma, that seemed looming somewhat. Not menacing. Just THERE. Presence... *in an attempt to sway away from speculation here, there when reporting. FYI
October 21, 2023 · 3:53 AM · UNKNOWN
Spokane, WA
Sitting at one spot familiar to myself (again) & it's going on 03:00AM and looking to the S.W. at I believe Venus? *checked with Earth Sky.com it was Venus, and to the right of the brightly glowing Venus his morning and a solid black shape, like a US state shaped (Utah, NM?) appears all of a sudden now!, entirely noticeable and really really black. Like if you know what a shadow entity is then I'd equate it to that as a solid, initial reference and blips out. Almost immediately following to the left of Venus/star a super faint flash, spark! of a thing. - and done-