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Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 276 UFO sighting reports in Washington from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (66 reports, 23.91% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (37 reports, 13.41% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (52 reports, 18.84% of total).
- 07/04/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 3.62% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (133 reports, 48.19% of total).
Washington UFO Sighting Reports in 2015
This is a sampling of 20 Washington UFO reports from 2015, 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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10-15 yellow orange lights south of Bellingham Observed from Canada by an airport control tower. 10-15 yellow orange lights slowly moving across the sky in trail and very loose formation. Came into sight low over horizon distant south east of Bellingham and disappeared approximately over Whidbey Island at what seemed to be a high altitude.
Did not climb or descend, but just tracked across the southern sky from east to west until they disappeared, one or two at a time.
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It was dark, but the craft was about 80 feet in length. It had 5 lights they were a light faded green color and the lights were large in size. The lights formed the triangle but all sides weren't equal length.
The bottom or back was half the length of the 2 sides. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone, and he said he would submit a more detailed description, and an illustration, of the object he witnessed. PD)).
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Slow moving, bright colored light in western sky. Sky was clear. Looking at stars.
Noticed a bright sparkling object in western sky. Moved very slow in what appeared to be a northern direction. With binoculars you could see there was more than one light.
Green, white and red or maybe orange. Thought maybe it was a helicopter hoovering (sic. Hovering), but the lights didn't seem right.
There was a blinking pattern. Disappeared or flew into the fog bank.
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7-9 orange glowing objects traveling north/northeast right at the tree line. 2 objects glowing orange traveling north/northeast went in and grabbed my dad and son so they could see as well, when they came out we all witnessed 5-7 more objects traveling the same path and speed, the last two objects were traveling a little quicker and changed their flight path just slightly but still traveling same direction. They seemed to be about a mile and a half away (relatively on the Stuart range/dingbat basin area) no sound whatsoever came from objects.
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Extremely high rate of speed fuzzy large red ball Our family rents a house every year which is located near the southern end of Ocean Shores, Washington. My son and I were outside down by the channel, enjoying the night sky. He was laying down on a bench, looking up at the stars and I was looking out towards the east over the canal.
He noticed a red, blurry light, which was moving quickly from the west to the east. Since he wears contacts he thought it was just something to do with his contacts, so he said nothing. A few seconds later I saw a large, red, fuzzy ball, moving at extreme speed, coming from the north, headed southbound.
It made a extremely sharp right hand turn and flew south of our position, but parallel to us headed west out to sea. We both looked at each other in disbelief for a few moments couldn't say anything. I can tell you that the amount of see that it took in the turn would've certainly cause the human out from the g forces.
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Looked like a ball of fire moving very slowly across the sky. It was very visible, as the sky was clear and I am surprised no body has reported it so far. It might have been a piece of some aircraft burning and falling down the sky.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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At about 8:30pm - 8:45pm on Christmas Night, I stepped out into my back yard and looked at the western sky. Through the tall trees in our backyard I could see a bright orange orb in the sky. I went out to the middle of the back yard to get a better view of the sky, unobstructed by trees, and noticed two more bright orange orbs that matched it.
Together they formed a scalene triangle formation - the two lights to the left were basically one above the other, and the one to the right was further away and sort of centered between the other two. They were not blinking or moving, they were stationary and glowing the exact same color and were brighter than anything else in the sky. I called for my husband to come out and look at them.
Clouds were coming in, but he was able to witness one of them for a minute or two before it disappeared behind the clouds. I went back in with my family and started talking about what I had seen, and my Mom said she had seen them about two hours earlier when she was coming over to my home. She lives on a hill about 1.
5 miles away, and had clearly seen them, unobstructed, as she drove down the hill on the way to our home. She described the exact same three stationary orange glowing objects in the exact same place and in the same triangular position in the western sky. I initially thought the objects may have been lanterns, but there is no way they were if she had seen the exact same objects two hours prior to me seeing them.
I also wondered if they were planets, but they were the same size, same color and glowing, not twinkling.
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Three starlike objects moving SLOWLY across the sky in unison either at high altitude or in orbit. I was sitting on my south facing rear patio just after sunset, when I noticed what appeared to be a satellite moving SLOWLY across the sky in a southeasterly direction. I initially observed it through the bare branches of my neighbor's large oak tree which was followed by the observation of two more similar objects travelling on parallel courses in a narrow angle of view.
After several seconds, I excitedly summoned my wife to come outside to witness what I was experiencing but the objects had already disappeared. The objects looked like stars but moved like satellites. The fact that there were three of them and they all slowly moved in unison was very unnerving.
I had never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
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Bellingham WA, 3 unknown flying crafts appeared at approximately 6:30 PM Pacific Time. They were red/orange colored. Last night December, 25th, 2015.
I was outside waiting for a cab, and I noticed some strange lights in the sky. I'm not into the UFO investigating, but there were three of them lined up, by the time I got my phone out two of them just shot away. No way it's a plane because one went backward.
I'm an experienced Paranormal Investigator (Ghost Hunting), but I never investigated UFO's, I have two pictures which I would be happy to send you.
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8 red lights in the night sky stationary in a weird diagonal formation. Was driving alone to Brush Prairie, WA, on Christmas Eve. There were 8 red lights stationary in the night sky in a very weird diagonal formation.
One by one they disappeared. It was very cloudy and a full moon, the moon and the stars were both not visible that night.
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6 white/red objects moving west to east over Renton, WA Approximately 19:17 hours, over Renton, Washington, there were 6 objects flying from the west to east, in pairs of 2. No sound was heard, no flashing lights, just white/red beams. They appeared to be sub-sonic.
As approaching closer they were also climbing in altitude until each set of 2 disappeared into the clouds. Some video was taken via a tablet, though clarity isn’t the best. Shape of objects was not clearly seen, looking like round objects in the sky.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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I was taking a photo of the Space Needle at night, but didn't see anything in the sky at that time. The photo shows a bright blueish green air craft by the Space Needle. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the object is a lens flare, but we cannot be certain.
PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Object was moving fast from West to the east and it looked lower than commercial Airlines. Duration was about 2 seconds. It was a greenish blue with a short yellowish green tail or flame.
This happened at 6:55am.
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Witnessed a very large-dark object with three red lights, distanced by triangle traveling between large cedar trees and the beach shore. My fiance' and myself were just leaving from a friends' place. We were traveling south at about 10 MPH, as there are speed bumps throughout the complex.
She pointed southeast up into the sky, saying "look at those lights"! It took me a few seconds to focus my eyes and see what she was referring to. There were three red lights in a triangular shape, behind a bunch of very large cedar trees. It appeared to be extremely large, traveling West.
It was disappearing behind the trees, we tried to speed up to get to a clearing to have a better view but by the time we got past all those trees, it was gone. We live right near the beach and islands, so I believe while we were looking west but more southwest, it may have been traveling more northwest. It was unbelievably surreal!!!.
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Very fast horizontal, low-flying, silent light. I live 8 miles north of Shelton, Washington. Tonight, 12/13/2015, at 11:00 P.
M., while standing on the front porch of our home. I witnessed a very bright light in the sky.
It was going at a very high rate of speed, from the southeast to the northwest. It almost appeared to be like a headlight. There was absolutely no sound.
It seemed to me to be traveling at about 500 to 700 feet above the ground. All I saw was the light. It must have been going at least 500 m.
p.h. As far as it was above the ground it appeared to be half again the size of an automobile headlight.
It seems silly to me, to report this, but I have never seen anything like this before. At first I thought maybe a star or meteorite, but it was absolutely horizontal. Just the one lone light.
No other lights like would be on a winged aircraft. I said to myself “what the hell was that?” Maybe I’m losing it. I am a 68 year old married woman.
My husband and I are both retired. I have completed some college. I’m just an average person going by the rules living my life.
No history of mental illness or police record. Just standing on my porch having a cigarette. Which by the way I do every night.
Again I have never seen anything like this before.
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9 bright orange lights over Deer Park, Washington. Watched 2 orange fireballs approaching Deer Park from south westerly direction not moving in a straight line, seemed to hover at times. Showed my sister, then a minute later watched at least 7 more of these orange globes approaching from same direction spaced apart, some hovered in same spot in sky for awhile then seemed to move off in different directions and fade.
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Iridescent flashing orb over Kitsap County/West Puget, WA. Reoccurring sighting. Very beautiful craft, pulsing brilliant iridescent light.
Viewed through a telescope craft appears to be many, many different colors constantly pulsing, flashing, and dancing. When craft is veiled in clouds, obvious illumination of cloud material itself occurs, confirming for me that it is indeed its own source of light. First encounter the craft was very well behaved, stayed in the same relative airspace, elevation and distance away with occasional upper atmosphere visits accompanied by physics defying aerial maneuvers.
Second encounter was about the same. The encounter being reported as of tonight was the first time craft had been observed flying out of sight on a linear trajectory, then promptly returing to sight within 20 seconds. Observed at least 5 FAA approved aircraft within UFO's airspace, which I denote is why the craft uncharicteristiy fled.
First two encounters had no confirmed human craft observed, UFO stayed in consistent sight, flashing and dancing for hours to all night.
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Seen flashing lights like lightning going in bursts of 2 lighting up the sky came from the north, seemed to flash every 45 seconds or so. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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fireball, two witnesses, holy crap. Initial witness saw a full 5 seconds of blue and red fireball.second witness saw a second and a half of yellow/white.
It appeared to both witnesses as a gigantic shooting star. Much larger than a normal shooting star. Researched on-line and found no other reports .
Traveling from east to west, easily 100 times the size of a shooting star. Colors not concurrent to a normal meteorite entry. Cloud cover was an interference but there was a sufficient gap to see the event.
The fact that we were even looking in that direction as we were going out to the car and witnessed the event was a million to 1.
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Bright white circular light with a long orange tail moving quickly westward across the sky I was standing on the corner of 85th St. NW and 24 Ave. NW, in Seattle, WA, absentmindedly looking north.
I turned my head and caught an extremely bright white circular light with a long orange tail traveling westward across the sky. I only noticed it after it has halfway across the exposed view of the sky and it quickly traveled out of view. No sound was heard.
About 30 seconds later a helicopter or aircraft followed on a similar path. I've never submitted a UFO report before and would certainly believe if it was a human made object. I have observed shooting stars before and this was significantly larger and brighter than anything I've ever seen.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Washington UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 66 reported sightings | 23.91% of all reports |
Circle | 36 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Unknown | 30 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
Triangle | 28 reported sightings | 10.14% of all reports |
Fireball | 22 reported sightings | 7.97% of all reports |
Other | 20 reported sightings | 7.25% of all reports |
Sphere | 16 reported sightings | 5.80% of all reports |
Flash | 9 reported sightings | 3.26% of all reports |
Formation | 8 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 2.54% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 2.54% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 37 reported sightings | 13.41% of all reports |
June | 30 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
September | 30 reported sightings | 10.87% of all reports |
December | 25 reported sightings | 9.06% of all reports |
October | 23 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
January | 21 reported sightings | 7.61% of all reports |
March | 21 reported sightings | 7.61% of all reports |
February | 20 reported sightings | 7.25% of all reports |
May | 19 reported sightings | 6.88% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 6.88% of all reports |
November | 19 reported sightings | 6.88% of all reports |
August | 12 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 52 reported sightings | 18.84% of all reports |
Thursday | 41 reported sightings | 14.86% of all reports |
Tuesday | 41 reported sightings | 14.86% of all reports |
Wednesday | 38 reported sightings | 13.77% of all reports |
Friday | 37 reported sightings | 13.41% of all reports |
Sunday | 36 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Monday | 31 reported sightings | 11.23% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2015 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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07/04/15 | 10 reported sightings | 3.62% of all reports |
12/04/15 | 5 reported sightings | 1.81% of all reports |
01/24/15 | 4 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
07/28/15 | 4 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
09/27/15 | 4 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 133 reported sightings | 48.19% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 50 reported sightings | 18.12% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 48 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 24 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 13 reported sightings | 4.71% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Washington, in 2015
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Washington.