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Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 242 UFO sighting reports in Washington from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (60 reports, 24.79% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (37 reports, 15.29% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (40 reports, 16.53% of total).
- 05/26/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 2.89% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (99 reports, 40.91% of total).
Washington UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Washington UFO reports from 2019, 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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Orb shaped objects with pulsating engines I was leaving to go to work at the Redmond Facebook VR facility when I observed several orb shaped objects flying separately then in a V formation while others went directly up at very high speed. I didn't report it at the time because I thought others would do so. My friend in London saw them and said I should report it.
I got the time from the photo data. I always have my cameras set to geotag Some of the photos are enlargements of the original to show details but I couldn't send everything because of a 10 photo limit.
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Me and my father were sitting in the hot tub relaxing when we saw 3 objects that looked like round fire balls appear in the sky going south west they were gaining elevation and traveling at a moderate pace they kept rising into the clouds then a fourth appeared and followed the same path Our first thought was flares but they kept getting higher in the air and the path they took seems to coordinated. I also have video of the sighting.
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Orange orb light orange surrounding halo Object: At 21:34 PM, on December 26, 2019, I observed a large glowing orange orb surrounded by a light orange colored halo traveling in the night sky over land from Priest Point, Washington (just south of Tulalip Bay) north along the coastline to Warm Beach, Washington. Originally I thought the object was an aircraft but after watching it for two minutes, I realized that I couldn’t see any navigational or landing/take-off lights. I ran into my house, retrieved my binoculars, and was able to observe the object for at least five more seconds through the magnification of my 10X50 binoculars.
The object was much closer by then to my location in the Seven Lakes area (Lake Goodwin). I could now clearly see this was not any kind of civil aircraft. The orange orb without binoculars (seen with the naked eye) appeared to be the size of a dime.
Observed with the binoculars, the object was an orange ball encompassed with a lighter colored orange halo. No discernable features of any type of aircraft were present, including wings, tail, fuselage, exhaust, or any type of lights. The object was clearly not any type of civil aircraft.
The object didn’t appear to traveling at great speed. It did appear to travel in a straight line at a constant moderate speed, with no discernable sound whatsoever.
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MADAR Node 100.
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Bright red object that seemed to pulse and and seemed triangular in shape with no sound as it flew over. Went out side to smoke a cigarette and notice bright red light flying over head.NO sound and slowing crossing to the SE.
could quite make out shape but thought maybe perhaps a drone? Was large but lost sight and seemed to have atenna like objects hanging down.Just don't knw what it was byt again NO SOUND and very bright not markers like on a aircraft, but whole object was red.
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30 fast moving objects Saw 30 object's fly from South to north. In single file. They where very bright made no noise.
Moving very fast.
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Many lights moving in a line across the night sky. Multiple lights were seen traveling across the night sky around 17:30. The lights appeared to be evenly spaced, and all moving in a straight line.
The lights were high in the sky and almost looked like stars, but they were moving. None of the lights blinked or deviated from the line.
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Numerous close flying objects in night sky over Portland Appeared to be just another satellite sighting, but it was followed by another close by. Then a string of them could be seen, apparently all on identical trajectories. No shape other than a single point of white light - no collision lights.
We saw numerous other aircraft each with their own collision lights at much lower altitudes. Easy to discern them from these unknown objects. It was one after the other all traveling from the SW heading over Portland then toward the NE where they entered a portion of the sky that was obscured by cloud cover and disappeared from view.
They were spread quite a bit apart from each other but have no way of determining how close they were to each other in any measurable way. Wife saw them too. Never seen so many objects in the sky flying the same path.
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MADAR Node 100.
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Triangular isosceles craft with white lights I was looking out my window on stars, and I saw one triangular craft. It was a shaped like an isosceles triangle with white, bright lights on the tips. Right when I got my eye on it, it flew straight up.
It might of put out a haze or smoke, but I'm not sure.
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MADAR Node 100.
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MADAR Node 100.
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Lime greenish truncated surfboard-like light zipping overhead in a straight line & disappearing. As I was driving across my employer’s parking lot at approximately 5 MPH (that is, quite slow, since there was a speed bump and it was dark) I noticed a very bright lime-like green light in my driver’s side visor area. Because of the overhang of the car roof over my head, I estimate I first saw it at about 145 degrees to vertical.
There were three notably remarkable things about it: 1) Although I was only 1 ½ blocks from our tiny regional airport, it was going about 2 – 3 times as fast as even an airplane that was NOT landing, 2) it was shaped like an oblong with one end cut off, e.g. like a beach “boogie board”, with a darker area in the middle which seemed to be a stripe or stripes extending from the tip to the back, and 3) it wasn’t going toward the airport at all, but at right angles to it.
If it had been an airplane, I’d have said it was flying quite a bit lower than normal flight—but then, I didn’ t know it’s size. Compared to the full moon up i! n the sky (not our recent harvest moon), it was about as big as ¾’s of a regular moon. Then after it zipped overhead (coincidentally in the direction my car was going) I followed it with my eyes, still trying to discern the stripe, and suddenly (very suddenly!) it disappeared.
I didn’t hear any sound when it disappeared. My estimate is that is disappeared when 20 degrees above the horizon. I didn’t see any afterglow.
I called a friend immediately afterwards, and that call is recorded as being at 7:32 pm. The visualization itself only lasted about 2 seconds. I was unable to discern from 911, the radio or my friend whether there had been a reported meteorite or whether others had seen what I saw.
I haven’t read any internet reports yet because I didn’t want to prejudice my report .
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MADAR Node 100.
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Looked like a shooting star travelling sideways then it was just gone.
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I was viewing sky from my back porch, when I noticed a glowing orange orb located southwest of my backyard way off in the distance in the clear section of the sky, the glowing orb slowly dropped down while moving southwest, till it was out of my sight.
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I was delivering newspaper saw light moving far overhead turns out it was several lights in a grid moving south west I counted out 32 but was more.
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MADAR Node 100.
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Stream of bright lights evenly spaced and evenly apart traveling northeast. Was on the phone looking out my back door when I noticed several bright stars in a straight line and evenly apart. Commenting to the person on the phone how strange that was so I stepped outside.
I then noticed that these were traveling northeast. I was looking to see if they were coming from the west like I had seen other satellites do. These were dropping in one at a time straight overhead.
Very bright as if twenty north stars following each other. To bright to be a traditional satellite I have seen before. Were these starlight satellites?.
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MADAR Node 100.
Washington UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 60 reported sightings | 24.79% of all reports |
Circle | 23 reported sightings | 9.50% of all reports |
Other | 20 reported sightings | 8.26% of all reports |
Triangle | 19 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
Unknown | 15 reported sightings | 6.20% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 4.13% of all reports |
Formation | 10 reported sightings | 4.13% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 4.13% of all reports |
Disk | 10 reported sightings | 4.13% of all reports |
Diamond | 7 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
Cylinder | 6 reported sightings | 2.48% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.24% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 15.29% of all reports |
May | 30 reported sightings | 12.40% of all reports |
September | 24 reported sightings | 9.92% of all reports |
November | 24 reported sightings | 9.92% of all reports |
October | 23 reported sightings | 9.50% of all reports |
August | 21 reported sightings | 8.68% of all reports |
December | 20 reported sightings | 8.26% of all reports |
June | 19 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
January | 18 reported sightings | 7.44% of all reports |
March | 16 reported sightings | 6.61% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 40 reported sightings | 16.53% of all reports |
Sunday | 39 reported sightings | 16.12% of all reports |
Wednesday | 38 reported sightings | 15.70% of all reports |
Thursday | 35 reported sightings | 14.46% of all reports |
Friday | 34 reported sightings | 14.05% of all reports |
Tuesday | 31 reported sightings | 12.81% of all reports |
Monday | 25 reported sightings | 10.33% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2019 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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05/26/19 | 7 reported sightings | 2.89% of all reports |
01/13/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
06/01/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
09/19/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 4 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 99 reported sightings | 40.91% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 48 reported sightings | 19.83% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 38 reported sightings | 15.70% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 28 reported sightings | 11.57% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 18 reported sightings | 7.44% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Washington, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Washington.