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Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 7,199 UFO sighting reports in Washington to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (1,497 reports, 20.79% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1,037 reports, 14.40% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1,238 reports, 17.20% of total).
- 07/04/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (41 reports, 0.57% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (428 reports, 5.95% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3,403 reports, 47.27% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Washington
These Washington UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I was sitting in my living room and I noticed a white light moving across the sky. I grabbed my phone and began to record the light. I noticed one object that was a white light moving from the east and going west headed over lake Roosevelt/the Spokane Indian reservation.
The back of my house faces North. My wife and I have seen things here on more than one occasion and instead of recording we just watch them fly in the sky. This time I ran outside on my deck and started recording.
I have about 1 minute and 26 seconds. I recorded the light until I lost it behind the trees. The object looked to be going in a straight line.
I didn’t see any blinking lights.
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3 silver circle shaped aircrafts We were grilling outside on the deck when we saw three circle aircrafts come from the West (ocean side of the state). They hovered above us at about 10,000 - 15,000 feet then started lowering together to probably 5,000 feet. After about 20 seconds they shot straight back up into the air, then they sped off faster than anything we'd ever seen.
It was unreal.
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Orbital module of China's Shenzhou 15 spacecraft rentering atmosphere.
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UFO with red/white light seen in Seattle Initially it was free falling and stopped at a certain height and remained there for a few seconds. it was blinking red lights when it was stationary in air. And then it started flying in the southwest direction but the red light turned off and there were intermittently blinking white lights.
Started recording video when the UFO became stationary in the air for some seconds.
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Black cylinder with an orange light Ok, so I got done shopping and was getting in the car when I saw a black shape with an orange light on it. I immediately thought it was a helicopter. It was moving towards me to the right of my car.
I got in the seat and started the car when I realized it didn’t look like a helicopter at all. I leaned over to look out the passenger window and the thing was floating closer and then slowed down to a hover. I could clearly see it was a black cylinder, with a orange light with a lighter yellow center.
The light and the object both felt organic to me. The light was fluctuating much like a fire would, not changing size but intensity of the light. It was off center of the object, like between four and five o’clock on a clock face.
The edges were solid and it was solid black but seemed to fluctuate for lack of a better term. It seemed to be only a few hundred feet up. I looked into the back seat to grab my DSLR when I realize it had my 85mm lens on it still, but I had a 70-300 in my bag.
I leaned over to check it again before changing the lens and getting out of the car and it was gone. I hopped out of the car and could not see it anywhere. Nothing it could have hid behind.
Gone. Disappointed I get back in my car and go to drive out of the lot, when I get to the far end I see a small black object to my left. I quickly take a picture with my phone and scramble to change the lens.
It’s going north/northwest now, was east originally and it’s moved a fair distance in maybe 15 seconds, it goes behind the tree in the picture and I wait for it to come out and nothing. After about ten seconds I head the direction I saw it going thinking maybe it started going west, I drove like three blocks to where I could see pretty clearly all directions and got out and looked around. Not a sign.
I called a friend a few miles north and asked them to humor me and look to see if they could see it and they said the sky was clear.
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ORB became visible 145 degrees 20 miles from my H=home deck at an estimated altitude of 10,000 FEET Doing panoramic free hand video search with SIONYX Aurora Pro IR video camera I spotted a pop up Orange Circular Orb showing a centered Black Spot and Blue Plasma Halo with a thinner Plasma Halo at the 2 o’clock position and a thicker Plasma Halo at the 8 o’clock position at time noted above for 1.3 seconds appearing to come from a low/slow/cloaked transition to a high departing power brilliant white octagonal shaped Orb with the Blue Plasma Halo showing uniformly around the Orb then exiting abruptly. Black spot was missing from white Orb.
Six nearby MADAR Data Probes showed no UAP activity nor did nearby NAS Whidbey Island radar. Videos include a 77 frame by frame analysis of event shot at 60 FPS / 720 P with Electronic Image Stabilization turned on. Speed estimated at 10 miles in 1.
3 seconds. Size estimated to be 50 to 100 feet in diameter. I am a retired Naval Flight Officer/Electronic Warfare Officer who flew EA-6Bs.
PS - NAS Whidbey radar data is retained for 45 days. 3/27/2024.
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What at first glance appeared birdlike., not so much no As I posted up on the rocky wall area facing mostly due west for a respite taking in what was a brilliantly bright clear blue sky as I glanced up from my personal belongings & happened to notice a practically 'V' shaped shape moving N to S across my field of view. Along with a News chopper in a circling pattern (holding) at what appeared to be a lower altitude than this object, over the downtown area.
Bustling downtown activities to report on currently, basketball. I continue to observe this object expecting to see a flap of wings or some physical movement. Nope.
It appeared like a solitary bird hovering mostly on an updraft in not a circling pattern more like slow movement forward, stop momentum. Changing position or changing shape of object. It moved forward a bit more… slowly moving towards the S.
I decided that it was not aircraft. It was not a Mylar balloon. At this point in time I decided to fetch my GoPro out of my backpack.
In the interim of accomplishing this feat I did not drop my gaze from the object for any countable length of time. And at some point in doing this I very likely muttered, "you're going to -blip!- out once I have the GoPro out, aren't you?" As it continued to remain mostly static in the clear sky at an altitude of say 4,500-5,500ft. Size of object uncertain, looked to me like a white bird, wings out open as if ready to 'flap downwards' I got the GoPro fired up and recording.
Located the object, got into position and that object was gone. As I continued to scan the area looking for the object, the News chopper who had departed was back now. Along with 5-6 hot air balloons in the immediate area now too.
-end.
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Barely visible, like it was camouflaged specifically for human perception, only the movement gave its shape away On the back porch with my nephew and partner star gazing, chatting, hanging out. 11:18pm or right in there, I had just looked at the time on my phone when my partner spotted it first, then my nephew spotted it. Shaped like a giant stingray without a tail, flying through the air as if swimming, said it "felt" alive and made a sound of water in the distance, invisible but in a hard to describe way, at if it's camouflaged against human perception or something.
Only thing that gave away its shape was the movement through the sky. Then we all almost passed out after it was gone, like the atmosphere got really really thick and heavy suddenly. It seemed like a creature, but not like a creature in the animal kingdom way.
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Bright white light moving slowly then turned red and receded until it disappeared I took my dog outside, tonight, after 8:15 pm. It was dark and beautiful clear sky (I was enjoying the moon (in the west)). My dog and I walked up the driveway (facing east), and as we did, I looked up and saw a bright white light (brighter than any visible stars - and a street light is right at the end of the drive, so I was seeing this through the street light).
It was a light so it appeared round. I cannot tell how high it was but we have a lot of air traffic here (we are near Boeing Field and live under one SeaTac approach) and this appeared higher than commercial flights (but I can't be sure). It was not a small light (maybe 1/16 of a full moon).
It was moving slowly north. It was probably at about an angle of 40 degrees elevation. It did not have any blinking light and was silent.
There was no noise. My dog did not seem to notice it. I walked back to our front door to call my husband to ask him to come and see it.
I kept my eye on it as I did. It changed direction, heading east, and appeared to be climbing elevation. After it changed direction and elevation it turned to a red color and became a horizontal line.
It was red, with small white lights on either side. It was no longer bright and was fading (or receding from me). It was quickly gone.
By the time my husband got outside it was a faint light and a star near it was brighter than the unidentified object was (but the star, itself, was very faint). It was probably at an angle of elevation of 60 degrees where it faded out of sight. My husband did not see it.
He thinks his eyes had not adjusted from lights inside the house, to be able to see a fading light in the night sky (beyond the street light). We stood and watched for a few minutes but it never reappeared. I have a background in science and am a writer.
Unfortunately, I did not have my phone with me, so I didn't get a photo. I have the Flight Tracker app. When I got back into the house I looked from between 8pm - 8:30pm and there were no flights east of my house of any kind (helicopter or airplane).
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Spinning upright cylindrical object descends, hovers in place and drifts before ascending more quickly. It appears to be cylindrical, upright, partially reflective and spinning. Depending on distance, it descends from above ~760m to ~150m, pauses intermittently while heading east, then accends faster than it descended.
The wind speed is ~2.6 knots from the west. This could explain the eastbound movement if it's a balloon, but not the intermittent stopping when maintaining altitude, or the odd shape.
The distance appears to be under 10km.
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Dark patch appeared, blocking stars. Blinding white flash in the center, object disappeared I was out stargazing and looking for UAP/UFOs as I often do on clear nights. I was staring directly up, and suddenly a large patch of the sky went completely dark, devoid of all light from stars.
After about 10-15 seconds, a blinding white flash emitted directly from the center of the dark sky, lasting maybe half a second. I noticed a slight smell of ozone after a moment, and then as suddenly as the object appeared, it disappeared and the section of sky was visible again. There was no noise emitted from the object.
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Driving home from getting pizza when noticed a bright light in the sky from afar First noticed the object in the sky, about four blocks from home, came in my apartment, saw what looked to be like a vapor trail, went outside, zoomed in because this thing was way far away and took three photos, and walked back in the apartment less than 20 steps Look back out the window, and it was gone in a matter of seconds, no vapor trail. Left sky was clear no clouds. I just couldn’t understand where it went where the vapor trails went.
Zoomed in on the picture after taking it the object looks triangle and black .
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Glowing outline of something huge slowly pulsated thru low clouds as it moved silent and slowly along the beach I was taking some garbage outside my house to dump in my can shortly after midnight and I noticed a section of sky glowing strangley and slowly pulsating. It was definatly NOT a fleet of drones,or random fireworks or somekind of flares, it was way to big and silent to be a helicopter .too slow and silent to be a plane … weather was overcast, cold, very slightly snowing.
It was unusual because where it was at in the sky is where you cant help but look as you walk straight out the front door of my house.so in the15+yrs I have lived here & looked at that section of the night sky ive never seen any similar lights in that location at night. So I was immedietly very curious as to what &why they were there and also, if they were actually moving like I thought they were ….
So after quickly shutting all my outdoor lighting off I went out and looked again at it. And whoa., I could see it much better.
And whatever it was, it quietly glowed thru the clouds like a slow moving horizontal row of lights that had to be aprox 300 feet wide or larger. Kind of eerie watching every light slowly pulsing in perfect syncronisity and illuminosity . Glowing dim to bright in about 10 second intervals (dim to bright o dim again every 10sec.
)when it reached the brighter of the pulse you could make out an outline of what I can only describe as looking like a curved cigar shape with maybe 20 or so lights running down the edge of it…(as if you were viewing the edge of a disc that had lights going all the way around it, from the ground it would apear to look like a flat row of lights.) .it was totally silent the entire time I watched it.
then, .after 10 min. it slowly started getting smaller as it got farther away.
always moving in a northern direction following the beach.( I must say it was quit beautiful watching it) the lights were almost hypnotic as they perfectly pulsated slowly from an orangish/dim white to brighter greenish blue then back again. From my doorway to where it apeared to be was approximatly 1/2 a mile away .
From that distance, I estimated the width had to be to be at least 100 yards wide (like the lenghth of a pro football field) then, a few minutes before it was gone the colors of the lights slightly changed .now…they were pulsing from a reddish/orange color to a darker blue/w white color then it was gone.
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Triangle craft moving in crazy way and fast Walked out our back door to take the dog out and saw a craft with three white lights in a triangle shape with large orange/red light in the center moving over the hills in every direction tightly and insanely fast then dove out of sight behind the hill. We are located on a hillside opposite the hills this was seen. We see planes both commercial and military often as the airport and Air Force base are located beyond where this was spotted.
This was not at all like those. This is not the first such sighting we’ve had here but it’s the first we’ve reported.
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Stepped outside for fresh air therapy and bogey! all of a sudden a spark!- to the West Stepped outside coffee shop for a fresh air therapy break out on the west facing sidewalk area at approx 05:33hrs and all of a sudden a single -spark!- bronze-ish BB gun BB did it resemble, in center most part of this sphere with a typical yellowish-white haze/aura around the sphere appeared/ing in the early morning sky and @ approx 11,000ft its easternly heading trajectory 'momentum' from the west was familiar, obvious. I decided it was not a planet (that bright? IMO? no) and it was not a star. The quick moving cloud cover at say 4,000 and 9,000ft gave no indication of false illusion from this.
It had a certain momentum that was noticeable in that this craft veered to port (left) and slowed trajectory as well heading mostly in a N.E. direction now.
As it sailed on it went mostly overhead and eventually visual tracking by me was lost. *for whatever reason the center of that craft and its very obvious BB gun BB bronze-ish colour had impacted me at this first observation of a craft like that that had such a draw to and why for? I am entirely uncertain. **This is the second posting of same event.
Hotline said to submit. ** FYI -end Previous description of same event: Just stepped outside of coffee shop for early morning fresh air therapy and outta know where At approx 05:33hrs as I took in some fresh air therapy on the sidewalk area directly outside of the coffee shop out in the early morning sky, out of nowhere, suddenly now! there's a single bronze-ish, yellow-whitish spark! I rapidly took in what it potentially was and wasn't. A planet? Nope.
Star appearing to wander in and around those broken multi level clouds overhead? Ah, no. My interest now piqued I took up a fixed gaze upon this familiar looking object flying in a clear West to East trajectory. At say 11,000ft.
For whatever reason the bronze-ish, BB ball center sphere was obvious and surrounded by usual yellowish/white glow, radiance etcetera. Yet even after I lost the object to the clouds overhead I began heading back into the coffee shop and I found myself muttering on about "that bronze BB gun ball looking" sphere. At the center of that sphere….
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Shooting white pinpoint flash observed while driving north on I-90 4:40 PM Thurs Feb 29, I was driving north on I-90 in semi-cloudy conditions, when an extremely bright white pinpoint light appeared just above the treeline out of nowhere and shot off due west leaving a short silver/white bright streak approximately thumb-to-index finger wide with arm outstretched. It should be noted that on this part of the interstate, the opposing lanes are at a lower elevation of about 100' or so. This flash did not travel all the way across the sky, but appeared just left of center of the highway and streaked right to left, disappearing as abruptly as it appeared.
I immediately was conscious to check off what it could not have been: aircraft, oncoming traffic reflection, weather phenomenon.I wonder if anyone else saw it.
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Familiar/same peculiar higher altitude object(s) Again, taking up a static standing position at the same location (typical MO) and bogey! at approx 17:59hrs at a higher altitude (approx 20,000-25,000ft) sailing from the S.E./E direction.
One single, silent -spark!- to observe and speculate upon. As before, as reported on here prior many times. No vapor trail, no sound, no FAA lights, nada.
Trajectory to the North and no deviation from this activity. No wiggle, no pulsing, no blip! at the disappearance of this craft. My opinion is that it sailed on until out of viewable sight.
Then at approx. 18:32hrs another single -spark!- again from the E/S.E.
sailing almost directly overhead (same altitude) and again the same characteristics as many times prior as reported on above. Not-a-thing to report on peculiar characteristics, nada. Kept similar trajectory to the North.
And as it sailed a few thoughts that I'll allow on this report. *After discussing with an investigator at MUFON on high altitude phenomena, meaning there's not much to investigate, I've taken up acquiring night vision/video recording equipment, for the record. Also spoke to an investigator at MUFON.
They are dealing with a MASSIVE data breach currently and are in a holding pattern until back up running on their website **IMO.it doesn't matter what location I might or may be at. These kinds of events take place with this kind of frequency.
Like a search. -end.
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Another sighting. Two different, observable craft particulars At approx 18:22hrs as I took up a static position again at the sidewalk facing in a Southernly direction did one bogey!, -spark!- flying southeasternly to the north show up. I started my GoPro to record anything it might pick up however, at that altitude 25,000-30,000ft approx it wasn't very fruitful.
I am going to switch to a night vision video recorder soon. Then approx 15mins later did a second single -spark!- strobing this time. Cruising along and -pulse, -pulse, -strobe, -strobe and continued on basically the same trajectory the same altitude approx as the first one until it vanished in the nighttime sky to the North.
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A Southbound craft overhead with a return object heading Northbound At approx 18:05hrs as I took up a mostly static standing position again on the now frozen sidewalk as I scanned the skies to my left (port) at an altitude of 25,000-30,000ft approx did a Southbound E/S.E.object (spark!) fly from the North again.
As I stood facing a mostly southernly direction. Similar to other objects that appear to have same attributes, that have been reported on here by me that have occurred at several different locations/states. JRA did it roll on.
It flew on this trajectory in the cold night time sky, silent as always until at a distance where it faded once, faded a second time and vanished entirely from sight. As I processed this activity along with the other similar reported on activity regarding this kind of craft only after approx. 10mins or so did all of a sudden -pop!- another single bright yellowish/white spark! appearing now! in the Southern E/S.
E. direction. Coming towards my static position, mostly directly overhead now and again high altitude 25,000-30,000ft it scooted along at a slightly more (noticeable) accelerated trajectory as I kept eyes on it in the cold sky, flew it did silent, zero noticeable emissions, until out of sight and it's view obstructed by a building.
*in closing I must add that the return object sailing AFTER the first one flew was the first time this kind of activity occurred with this kind of craft. Lastly. The report directly filed before this one submitted I left out that a vacant building's, (next to where I was standing when that spark! flew), alarm went off.
For whatever reason and blared and blared. -end.
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Wife and i were smoking outside and i handed her the cigarette and i saw it over her shoulder. It was a massive red disk shaped "aura" My wife and i were smoking outside and I handed her the cigarette and I saw it over her shoulder to the west. It was a massive red disk shaped "aura" that was slowly but steadily moving west away from us.
I could not get my phone from inside the house in time for video or imagery. We watched it decend over the treeline. It had to have been the size of a football field.
I watch the sky every night i am 37 years old and a disabled army vet. I have never seen this before.
Washington UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 1,497 reported sightings | 20.79% of all reports |
Circle | 670 reported sightings | 9.31% of all reports |
Unknown | 547 reported sightings | 7.60% of all reports |
Triangle | 538 reported sightings | 7.47% of all reports |
Fireball | 525 reported sightings | 7.29% of all reports |
Other | 486 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
Sphere | 442 reported sightings | 6.14% of all reports |
Disk | 343 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Oval | 294 reported sightings | 4.08% of all reports |
Formation | 227 reported sightings | 3.15% of all reports |
Changing | 177 reported sightings | 2.46% of all reports |
Flash | 135 reported sightings | 1.88% of all reports |
Cigar | 120 reported sightings | 1.67% of all reports |
Cylinder | 116 reported sightings | 1.61% of all reports |
Rectangle | 103 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
Diamond | 92 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Chevron | 80 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Egg | 56 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Orb | 46 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Teardrop | 42 reported sightings | 0.58% of all reports |
Cone | 24 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
Cross | 22 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Star | 12 reported sightings | 0.17% of all reports |
Delta | 4 reported sightings | 0.06% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 1,037 reported sightings | 14.40% of all reports |
August | 862 reported sightings | 11.97% of all reports |
September | 693 reported sightings | 9.63% of all reports |
June | 636 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
October | 588 reported sightings | 8.17% of all reports |
April | 512 reported sightings | 7.11% of all reports |
November | 479 reported sightings | 6.65% of all reports |
February | 478 reported sightings | 6.64% of all reports |
March | 475 reported sightings | 6.60% of all reports |
December | 457 reported sightings | 6.35% of all reports |
January | 450 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
May | 424 reported sightings | 5.89% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 1,238 reported sightings | 17.20% of all reports |
Friday | 1,113 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
Sunday | 1,056 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 962 reported sightings | 13.36% of all reports |
Wednesday | 939 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Tuesday | 896 reported sightings | 12.45% of all reports |
Monday | 887 reported sightings | 12.32% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/04/12 | 41 reported sightings | 0.57% of all reports |
11/14/97 | 30 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 27 reported sightings | 0.38% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 23 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
07/04/09 | 20 reported sightings | 0.28% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3,403 reported sightings | 47.27% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1,172 reported sightings | 16.28% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1,168 reported sightings | 16.22% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 533 reported sightings | 7.40% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 482 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 333 reported sightings | 4.63% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Washington.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Washington