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Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 200 UFO sighting reports in Washington from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (27 reports, 13.50% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (28 reports, 14.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (38 reports, 19.00% of total).
- 03/25/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 5.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (86 reports, 43.00% of total).
Washington UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Washington UFO reports from 2021, 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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Multiple spheres of light slowly zigzagging upwards until they faded away. I was cruising back to my house New Year's Eve night with a friend of mine just before midnight when my friend said what the heck is that. I looked up and saw multiple spheres of light slowly zigzagging upwards.
I pulled over and started recording the video which I attached to this report.
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MADAR Node 100 .
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3 orange orbs heading north of Spokane Washington Wife and I video recorded 3 orange orbs heading north from Spokane Washington on Christmas eve around 7:30 pm.
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I saw a sphere of light shoot through the clouds. I was driving south bound on i5 just right at the 145th street exit in shoreline/seattle when all of the sudden a sphere of light shot through the sky illuminating the clouds. It happened so fast that it scared the hell out of me.
It was a bright blue/green light.
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I did not see anything, nor coiuld I tell which direction was coming from. Dec.13th at 8:30 PM.
I heard a sound which I thought was over our house. It was like a helicopter, but larger than any which checks the power lines or the Coast Guard helicopter. My husband was bothering with the television which wasn't working when I opened the living room door which opens to the outdoors.
I said,'Can you hear this?" He wasn't interested. A couple days later, my neighbor and I were talking. He noticed it and said he thought that there were more than one.
He had been in his wife's shop at the time. I remember hearing something like propellor strokes, but I thought I heard a grinding sound which was loud. I couldn't see anything, no lights whatsoever, I also couldn't detect which direction, except when it must have been directly over head, because it was so loud.
I have another detail attaching to case #119767. I reported that the tree line was perpendicular to the tree line that the UFO followed by our place. I.
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No Sighting, only sound 8:30 PM my husband was trying to catch the recorded evening news for projected weather. It had not recorded so the network kept giving us PBS to watch. It kept quitting and replacing with something else.
My husband was in the living room, I was going back and forth from a bedroom with a sewing project and the living room. From the bedroom, I heard what sounded like a helicopter around our place. I stepped outside to try to see something.
It was totally dark outside. There were no lights on and I could not get a definitive direction from where the noise was coming. It sounded larger than the helicopters we usually hear if they are searching for an escaped convict or someone.
It also didn't fit the description of Bonneville Power searching the power lines. This sounded larger, but no lights on or any way to see it. It stayed around here about 10 minutes.
I asked my husband if he heard it while I had the door open from the living room. My husband was busy with the television. He said later that he was concentrating on the television and not on that.
He was not paying attention to it. It was loud and he missed it. I saw nothing, but heard something very large.
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Two large parallel red lights I was driving west on Mission Ave near the community college. I noticed two large clusters of red lights cruising parallel in the sky slightly ahead of me. I could not tell if it was one large craft with lights at each end or two separate lights flying perfectly parallel to each other.
The distance between the lights was considerably farther than a very large passenger jet. It was flying very low but I could not hear engine sounds. It seemed to be travelling very slowly.
i was driving about 40 mph and it stayed the same distance from me the whole time. Neither of the light clusters were flashing. A smaller passenger was flying perpendicular to it's path.
As the lights approached the small plane they just vanished.
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While taking an photograph of Christmas lights and stars in the dark evening sky, a "V" formation of eight lights appeared. I was standing on a balcony using a Samsung S21 Ultra to capture night sky pictures with Christmas lights in the foreground. The picture looked good on the phone and I was pleased with the way the phone brightened the almost black sky, but when I got home and looked on a large monitor, there was a formation of 8 lights in the sky along with the stars.
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We drove on 12/12/2021 at 5 pm in direction to Oysterville WA, it was getting darker but we still had daylight, in the sky in front of us was a very fast moving green light which disappeared in a single cloud in the sky. The light was moving from south to north. The sighting last 3 - 4 seconds.
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Low rumbling noise then a light. I stood up & saw a white, opaque clear boarder oval or egg shape blob, moving fast from south to nort West door of barn was open. Picking up hay spilled by cows.
I heard a low rumble noise. A bright light caught the top of my eyes. I stood up to see what I thought was the moon for a second.
I realized it was moving fast 150 feet from me and from south to north just above the tree line. It was opaque and pale with distinct borders putting out bright light.(no aura).
It could have been an oval or egg shaped. My eyes followed it. It passed through low wispy light clouds, then behind something black (a tall tree) then through wispy clouds again and off in the distance.
It was almost dark outside. 5:15 guestimate. I saw it do a slight ark and then a dive to the earth or water.
It was to my horizon at that time because of the change in the land contour and tall trees running perpendicular to the trees closer to my place. 3-5 minutes passed and I heard another low rumble. For a trajectory, I was facing west.
My left hand was pointed straight in front of me. It ended where my right hand was 70 degree. I saw it for 3-5 seconds total.
The object was silent, but somehow accompanied by a low rumbling noise like thunder. I was not aware of aircraft chasing it. The only electrical effect was that my computer would not respond.
It froze up when I tried to get my report written last night. I believe that when it was close to me and after the first rumbling, there may have been a middle rumbling in the distance, then the third rumbling 3-5 minutes after it dove downward.
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silver oval sized figure saw in sky earlier- object did not move from spot in sky & then dissappeared while driving in Shelton area heading to the 101-highway, I noticed a silver oval sized object in the sky at some distance away. At first i thought it must be an aircraft or balloon, but object did not change position . After a couple of minutes the object just faded away.
No clouds were seen near the object .
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Observed a bright light coming towards us, which turned and hovered and then took off at lightening speed I am a college graduate. Speak 3 languages. Raised 4 daughters overseas.
My husband has his Masters degree, and is knowledgeable in identifying aircraft. I was up early and noticed a bright light in the sky, heading south over the Strait of Juan de Fuca towards us. I assumed it was a large jet heading towards Seattle, but there were no blinking lights.
I asked my husband what he thought it was and because it was low he thought maybe a military helicopter. We continued to watch it slowly turn and then hover about 100 feet over our neighbor’s house. There was no sound, no blinking lights and was shaped like a cigar.
It must have turned because then we saw on one side only, a string of green lights. And then it began to head north and disappeared like lightening.
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I work ATC at GEG international airport. I know what planes and satellites in the sky are supposed to look like. Went outside to let my dogs out and saw these lights in the sky moving in erratic directions.
Clearly not a satellite, and not a plane. Their movement while did have some level of pattern to it, was rather erratic. I could not see any beam of light that might explain their origin, and even if there was, I find it doubtable that someone is shining 4 spotlights in the sky at 3:30 in the morning on a Wednesday.
I was able to record the event, though the footage does not fully capture their luminosity. I am perplexed by this phenomenon. Yesterday, my local news network showed a video of the same event happening the night prior, but with more clarity then my video.
I’m not the only one who witnessed these lights, and I feel it is worth submitting an entry.
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Bright stationery light 40 degrees from horizon due south from address given Very bight light located as reported in the sentence above. The light was stationery and there were clouds behind it and it was before sunset, so it was not a star. We watched it for about 5 minutes as clouds passed behind it.
Finally it became obscured by cloud cover.
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MADAR Node 49 .
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MADAR Node 130 .
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I woke up at 2:00 AM amd was not able to go back to sleep when i sat in front of my window facing the mountains i saw 3 lights when i woke up really early this morning i couldn’t go back to sleep so i got a snack and sat down in front of my window facing the Mt Angeles/hurricane ridge mountains when i saw 3 white lights that weren’t exactly flashing but they were fading and dimming in and out. Personally i think those lights are way too high to be any people/houses this early.
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Flickering ball of light dancing around then moving strangely no sound My wife and I pulled over after we noticed a ball of light flickering we thought it was a star but the way it looked it wasn't a star we began filming it and it dances around a little then it disappeared off camera but was still visible with our eyes then it started doing strange things on camera then my wife got scared so we left I've attached the video of it.
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7 UFOS HOVERING AND CHANGING COLORS FLYING STRAIGHT INTO THE AIR I was sleeping in my car while my fiancée was driving doing DoorDash deliveries when he suddenly woke me up and asked me to look in the sky and tell him what was the 7 glowing lights Flying and Hovering in the sky as soon as I seen how the lights where changing colors and moving in a weird formation and Shooting off Fast in the sky we immediately started recording and following the lights I never seen anything like this in my life and I know for sure it was not a plane I trued to call my local news but they didn’t believe us so this is my last resort I just want the world to know there is other intelligence of some sort that is not like us whatever those were flying in the sky is not from earth.
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Started as 7 lights coming from lower horizon, moved up formed a triangle and then up and disappeared. Was outside looking at an owl that had just flew over and landed on the powerline. I turned around because I heard something in the bushes and I saw a bunch of unusual lights in the sky.
I counted 13 at first as they were moving up from the horizon and then stalled for a moment, twinkled a bit, moved some more and then eventually went higher and would disappear. As they were disappearing, new lights were slowing appearing from the same spot on the horizon. Eventually, they all disappeared one at a time.
They were also twinkling from dim to bright as they hovered. They appeared as bright orange, I could not make out a specific shape. The owl let out a screech and a hoot and flew low just above my head just after I noticed the lights.
Washington UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 27 reported sightings | 13.50% of all reports |
Other | 18 reported sightings | 9.00% of all reports |
Circle | 17 reported sightings | 8.50% of all reports |
Formation | 11 reported sightings | 5.50% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 5.50% of all reports |
Oval | 11 reported sightings | 5.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 9 reported sightings | 4.50% of all reports |
Changing | 7 reported sightings | 3.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 7 reported sightings | 3.50% of all reports |
Rectangle | 7 reported sightings | 3.50% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 3.00% of all reports |
Flash | 5 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.50% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.50% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.00% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Delta | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2021 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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March | 28 reported sightings | 14.00% of all reports |
May | 28 reported sightings | 14.00% of all reports |
April | 20 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 19 reported sightings | 9.50% of all reports |
September | 15 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
January | 15 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
December | 13 reported sightings | 6.50% of all reports |
August | 13 reported sightings | 6.50% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 6.50% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
October | 12 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
February | 12 reported sightings | 6.00% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Sunday | 38 reported sightings | 19.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 38 reported sightings | 19.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 37 reported sightings | 18.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 28 reported sightings | 14.00% of all reports |
Friday | 26 reported sightings | 13.00% of all reports |
Monday | 19 reported sightings | 9.50% of all reports |
Wednesday | 14 reported sightings | 7.00% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2021 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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03/25/21 | 10 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
05/15/21 | 10 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
05/04/21 | 5 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
05/16/21 | 5 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
07/03/21 | 4 reported sightings | 2.00% of all reports |
Washington UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 86 reported sightings | 43.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 35 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 26 reported sightings | 13.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 23 reported sightings | 11.50% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 8.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 13 reported sightings | 6.50% of all reports |
All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Washington, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Washington
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Washington.