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Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 165 UFO sighting reports in Washington from 2006 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (35 reports, 21.21% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (32 reports, 19.39% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (30 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 10/01/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.03% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (64 reports, 38.79% of total).
Washington UFO Sighting Reports in 2006
This is a sampling of 20 Washington UFO reports from 2006, 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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At 14:02 on FOX NEWS there was a UFO that flys out from behind Mt. Hood.
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I was driving N.B. I-5 next to Fort Lewis, Wa.
I just crossed the Nisqually River Bridge, and was traveling uphill towards Mounts Road. A white object traveled across the sky going from the east toward the west, and it disappeared from my site as it traveled over the McNeil Island Federal prison. It was traveling very fast, straight across the sky with no fire or trail.
The weather was stormy hard rain and high winds most of the night, but there was a small break in the weather when this appeared about 50,000 feet. This occured at 03:36 A.M.
in the morning P.S.T.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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3 red lights making formations We were outside smoking a cigarette and started talking about jets, being that we were listening to a louder than usual jet, or so we thought. My boyfriend pointed to the red light that we thought was the jet and i noticed to more red lights next to it. The lights seemed to have another color behind them, other than the darkish sky.
As we stood there we saw the lights move in a slow steady pace. The were formed in a triangular shape and slowly moved into a rounded half circle and then into a perfectly straight angled line that ended in a perfectly straight line that was 90 degrees from the ground. We watched until they quickley disapeared.
When the lights moved they moved smoothley and perfectly, but we saw one kind of jerk back and forth and return to formation. As the were disapearring we saw a white light (a plane?) intersect their path but at a different direction and I don't know how close it was to them. If this wasn't an alien spacecraft than it was some crazy government fighter plane.
I still cant believe we both witnessed this. I had goosebumps for the next 5 minutes and when I explain it to people I still get the chills.
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Hovering craft seen over Bellevue Washington My wife and I were driving home from work when she said," That airplane looks like it is going to crash". When I looked up, it looked like at first it was a small plane duing a 45 degree turn. We both noticed it was moving to slow to be a plane.
At that time it was difficult to see an exact shape. It remined me of an old american car. It moved slow, and a very even movement.
It went around Downtown Bellevue and stoped. At that time I noticed a light coming from the front , like a spot light. It was at an aproxoite 35-40 degree angle.
I looked at the shape, it was flat on the bottom, with a hump in the back and a hump in the front. Like I said an old American car. It just sat there, did not move.
I put my window down and did not hear anything except cars. Then it started in what looked like a circular drive around the city, which is only a few blocks in either direction. This time it went around and never came back.
I know it was not a plane. It was not a chopper, did not see any moving parts. It was twice as high as the tallest building in Bellevue, which is 44 stories.
It seemed quite large like a big rig truck, but much thiner. It had at least one light on the back hump which was on all the time.
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11/27/2006 6:47 Moses Lake Wa lasted 3 mins cicler craft with lights vanished when it dimmed out Me and and 4 friends were heading to Big Bend college on the highway from Ephrata to Moses Lake. I was telling my friend Dave about the book I check out from the library at the college it was the Gulf Breeze sightings. When out of the corner of my eye to the small town of Straford which is southeast of Moses Lake I saw Two Huge round light and smaller one in and around the cicler craft which was very close the the snow clouds I was not the only one to see this craft ,But my friend also saw the said craft which lasted about three min and then is slowly vanished from our sight by dimming out I belive this was the real deal can you tell me if any-one saw something of the sort or iare my friend and me the only wittness thank you and I'll chech back on this sight letter this month and report any other ufos Ok!!!.
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I AM A BREAD DELIVERY MAN AND WAS PULLING INTO THE PARKING LOT 11-27-2006 AT MY JOB SITE, WHEN I SAW A BRILLIANT DISK SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS THE SKY ABOUT 20 MPH, IT WAS ABOUT 200 FT HIGH AND ABOUT 50 FT WIDE AND MADE NO SOUND. THIS WAS EARLY MONDAY MORNING AND WAS A RARE CLOUDLESS STARRY NIGHT. THE BRILLIANCE WAS STARTLING AND WHEN I PARKED MY TRUCK I JUMPED OUT TO SEE WHERE IT HAD GONE, BUT IT VANISHED.
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Low, quick light seen over Olympia, Washington, neighborhood. I was walking in my neighborhood and something caught my eye overhead. I looked up and saw a light move very quickly then disappear.
The direction was northerly, in a straight line, no quick stops or turns. The light was steady white, not flashing, and no shape could be discerned. There was no sound at all either before or after I saw the light.
There was no 'tail' or appearance of fire or dust like might be expected if it was a meteor. After only seconds, I could no longer see the light. It did not go behind trees or any obstruction, it did not appear to hit the ground, it was just suddenly no longer visible.
The light appeared to me to be low in the sky, lower than the numerous commercial airlines I see and hear regularly. I have never seen anything like this before, and I regularly look at the sky in the evening, as my husband and I enjoy looking at stars and planets through a telescope. We have seen satellites - this was not one.
We have seen shooting stars - this was not one. We have seen commercial airlines - this was not one. Most peculiar to me, was the fact there was absolutely no sound.
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Flash of light and huge object blending in with the night sky My husband and I were outside our home. It was a clear night. There was suddenly a bright flash that lit up the whole sky-like lightning, except there were no clouds and no thunder followed.
We both looked up in the sky and were searching for the source of the flash, when I saw an object moving slowly in a East-South East direction. To me the object appeared to be see-through, as I could barely tell it was there at first. It seemed to blend in with the dark sky and the stars.
But, as it moved there were a few lights on the bottom and I knew I was no longer looking at stars. It was huge (If I hold a ruler 12" from the bridge of my nose, the object would have been at least 4" long x 3" wide.) I asked my husband if he saw it and he said he did.
As it moved away from us, it gained in speed and in an instant was gone. I have waited almost 2 months to report this due to the strange weather we've been having in the area. My husband and I discussed what to do, and we decided to wait and see if it came back.
Shortly after this sighting we were struck with a "freak" snowstorm and internet service was knocked out for 4 days. Then, last month, we had 2 severe wind storms, which we are still dealing with the damage from; and again we lost internet service for 5 days. So, thanks to calm weather this week, I am finally able to report what we saw.
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2 white ovals, 1 chasing the other above cloud level, odd flight patterns I parked at a local Walgreens: (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=7707+Se+27th+St,+Mercer+Island,+WA&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=47.
58932,-122.234831&spn=0.025355,0.
10849&t=h&om=1 ) at 22:35 on 10/24/2006 and as I was getting out of my car I noticed two completely lit white ovals moving through the sky, roughly southeast to northwest in the northern part of the sky. One was kind of following the other, but I couldn't notice at the time whether the second was following exactly, or just very similarly. At any rate, what struck me was two things - the height and the pattern of flight.
The height struck me because they definitely were above the cloud level. I'm still trying to figure out what the could level was at that time, but it gave me the impression that if they were as high as they seemed, then they were pretty large. I first saw them going in a straight line, then the first one curved around the left and came back just a bit, then continued left, then forward, then right back to the original path.
It then sort of seemed to wander in that direction until it disappeared over the clouds. The second was doing basically the same thing, if not exactly the same thing, but about a second or two delayed after the first. I left my car door open and ran towards them to try and get a cleared look, and shouted out, "UFOs! in the north sky!" a few times.
Frustratingly, no one was around until someone parked about 10 seconds after they went over the clouds. They got out and I told them about it and they immediately got back in their car and headed to a park on the north side of the island to get a better view of the sky. I also did this, but we didn't see anything at that point after about a half hour of looking up.
They must have already gone. I'm sending a 5 minute MS Paint illustration - sorry, it's pretty ugly! ((NUFORC Note: Illustration requested, but not yet received. PD)).
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White lights moving sharply over the Kennewick sky. I was looking up at the eastern sky at 0115am, and I noticed a light that was making sharp turns and moves. I watched this light for about 15minutes then realized that there were about 8 other lights that were doing the same thing.
I then noticed a group of lights just to the south of them that were lateral, and were slowly moving horizontal. I thought I was just still half asleep, but then realized I had been watching them for an hour. I was going to get a camera or a camcoder, but I was hesitant to do so and never did.
To me it was erie and gave me a bad feeling. Did anyone else see these lights??? ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD)).
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dullish orange orbs with an almost translucent center. Traveling very fast and silent. Out on my deck having a cigarett when two orange orbs flew overhead.
they were a dullish orange with an almost translucent center. Traveling very fast and silent. Still in awe over what I had just seen, another orb with the same description flew over head.
this time at a higher altitude but still traveling in the same direction. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Gigantic triangle flys over Seatac and makes hard left turn. Was sitting in back yard west of Seatac airport saw a large triangular object flying through the sky. From North to south and then made a sharp left hand turn to the east and then disappeared.
The wing span was gigantic with individual lights on leading edge just like the Phoenix lights. It was a very clear cloudless night, but the lights were almost like they were clouded. Very dimmed.
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Chevron-shaped object over Seattle/Bellevue Coming out of the house, facing SouthWest I observed an aircraft with a wingspan similiar to a 767, two white lights underneath. It had no fuselage or tail. There were also no other lights, no strobes, nothing flashing as I'd normally expect to see.
I could see the setting sun reflecting underneath the metallic wing as it flew away from me in a generally SSW direction. It appeared to be 4-7 miles away from me. I wondered if it weren't an aircraft.
A moment or two later, my question was answered when it went from flying level to a zero degree climb (straight up!). It rose approximately 100-200 ft and dissappeared completely from view. The sky was cloudless in that part of the sky.
I know of no aircraft that could make that maneuver without stalling and crashing, much less dissappearing like it did.
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extreme bright light I dont know what that was, but usually aircraft are seen moving. My wife noticed it first and she said she watched it for maybe a minute then asked me what the light was we were sitting on our couch and I leaned over and saw it for myself. The light was very bright seemed pertty low and with in seconds of me seeing it it moved and the light went dim and it was gone.
It was just odd, it did not look anything like a helicopter or airplane, becasue the ligth was so bright then it just dimmed out and it was gone and it really did not look like it moved, but it did move when the light went dim, it is really hard to explain and i can say it was not normal. I dont know maybe it was just a aircraft. It looked to be over McChord AFB, but I have seen aircraft land and take off from there and they never have looked like that before.
Also we did notice a aircraft in the same area we had seen the lights and we could clearly identify it as a airplane, this was a few minutes after seeing the light. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Craft landing on Mt. Adams I arrived at Trout Lake, Washington on Mt. Adams at the UFO santuary and observation area, they held a UFO conference in August.
Walking into the observation field with Mt. Adams in the background, I saw portions of a craft wavering, somewhat similar to seeing something through water (an aura or haze). Shortly an entity appeared, my friend wanted to see him as well but was not sensitive.
I pointed to where he was at and asked him to put his hand in that area; the "air" felt smooth with the ET's presence. My friend compaired the energy to another space, which it was definately different. We both received answers to some questions in life we had and they left.
((NUFORC Note: One of three reports from same source. PD)).
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I noticed a very white tail behind an object traveling north in the southern sky. It appeared to be very high and far away. The object I could not make out, but the white tail showed up clearly against the blue sky and was perhaps 5 times as long as it was wide.
The most notable feature was that the white tail did not trail out into a vapor cloud like a contrail behind a plane. It ended sharply, without a residual mark in the sky. After watching it for a couple of minutes, the white tail disappeared.
For a few more seconds, I could see a tiny bright dot with the same path that looked like sunlight reflecting off of metal, then I could not see anything there at all. A student on campus saw it at the same time I did. I would like to know just what it was.
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A VERY bright and transluscent light that seemed to glow more than create a shape hovered above Lake Washington (so it seemed) in the Wedgewood neighborhood for a few moments, then WHOOSH.rapidly descended like a shooting star towards the ground or towards the horizon.
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Very large yellow teardrop-shaped disk or meteor dropping several or many miles East of Seattle, Washington - watched for 12-14 seconds Date: 10 October 2006 Time: 20:34 on 24-Hour Clock (8:34 or 8:32 P.M. P.
D.T.).
Object: Possibly a Meteor coming down to Earth, teardrop shaped (round with short pointed tail). Coloration: very bright yellow (with duller yellow blotches). Size: nearly the size of the Moon (which was in the Southern sky), possibly 3/4 to the size of a full Moon.
Azimuth: Using North as zero (0°), to South (180°), and therefore East (90°), the object was at first spotted at nearly 100° and by the time it disappeared over the horizon, it was perhaps 95° azimuth (Left to Right, it was just slightly more to our Right from straight ahead). Angle of Elevation: closer to 35° than 30 when first spotted, and dropping to about 25° or 20° behind the horizon. Duration: It was a couple of seconds before I discounted it as not being a reflected glare, and then close to 12 seconds of active watching (while driving, as there was no place to pull over and it was easy to watch while driving as it was so low now and just right of straight ahead).
The distance was impossible to tell, but it had the illusion of dropping out toward North Bend or Lake Sammamish. After: As it disappeared from sight, I called a friend who lives on the West shore of Lake Sammamish to see if they were ok, and to see if they had seen it. They had there back to the east deck window and had seen it get very bright and then turned to see it glowing over the East horizon.
As they went outside, they heard neighbors talking on their docks asking each other, "What the heck was that?" Reporting: I called information for ideas of who to report this to . I left a message at a Meteor organization in Kent, and then called and left a message at the University of Washington Astronomy Department in Seattle, and then called and spoke with Jennifer at KIRO Radio (710AM) in Seattle, who suggested I also report the event to the folks here at UFOCenter.com (and thank you for your kind call!) even if it was a meteor or such, as it had not yet been identified as such.
POV: My point of view was driving Easterly on the Evergreen Bridge (Hwy 520) from Seattle, Washington toward Lake Sammamish just East of the center of the bridge when I noticed one very large yellow circular shape appearing to drop from the sky slightly to the East-Southeast side of the bridge, but still almost as high as the moon which was in the Southern sky. I moved my head around a bit to be sure it was not simply a glare on the windshield, but it kept its path in spite of my dramatic movements. My passenger was also astonished at what we were seeing; as it was so large and not shooting "across" the sky as stars sometimes do (my passenger is an adult female, about my age).
Personal Info: My name is Tim Oldfield, I'm 51 years of age . back in college to work toward my Masters Degree . just got my eyes checked at the optometrist 3 weeks ago and they are fine and unchanged (and I have fresh contacts on).
My email is [email protected] and my mobile phone number is 505 650 0223 (New Mexico number, but I live back in the Seattle area). Too bad cellular phone cameras give such poor results and are so slow to access .
too late.
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Bright blue explosion followed by blue shooting object over Pullman, WA In Pullman,WA on the Pullman Moscow Highway I was driving towards Pullman and just about to enter city limits. To the West (compass used) at about a 45 degree angle of vision, a bright blue circular object suddenly came into view with an explosion that light up the entire sky with whitish blue light. It flew at no more than a 10 - 15 degree angle relative to a VERTICAL line (down from left to right).
It was almost flying straight down. It was only in view for about one full second before dissapearing again with no sound at all. The explosion of light only lasted a fraction of a second, but the movement and visual of the object itself carried on for a full second as it shot across the sky.
Behind the object was a bright bue and white tail that spanned across its entire path of flight and was as thick as the object was wide. I would describe the size of the object as being that of a full moon or even a little bigger.
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Sun 10/01/2006 8:19 pm PST Metiorite descending slowly and decellerating. Left a trail of green and yellow sparks. At N80°E from Orchards about 15° above the horizon entering the atmosphere at 45° from the South.
Burnt out before hitting the ground.
Washington UFO Sightings From 2006 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 | 35 reported sightings | 21.21% of all reports |
Unknown | 25 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 14 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
Circle | 14 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
Fireball | 12 reported sightings | 7.27% of all reports |
Disk | 11 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 4.24% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.21% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2006 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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August | 32 reported sightings | 19.39% of all reports |
April | 22 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
July | 22 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
September | 14 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
March | 13 reported sightings | 7.88% of all reports |
October | 13 reported sightings | 7.88% of all reports |
May | 10 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
February | 8 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 4.24% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2006 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 | 30 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Sunday | 28 reported sightings | 16.97% of all reports |
Monday | 24 reported sightings | 14.55% of all reports |
Friday | 22 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Thursday | 21 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Tuesday | 20 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Wednesday | 20 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2006 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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10/01/06 | 5 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
04/05/06 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
08/15/06 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
08/18/06 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
08/19/06 | 4 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2006 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 | 64 reported sightings | 38.79% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 39 reported sightings | 23.64% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 22 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 20 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2006
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Washington, in 2006
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Washington.