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Analysis of Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings in 2001
We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in Bellingham, Washington to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "formation" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- June was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sunday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 12/23/01 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Bellingham, Washington from 2001
These Bellingham, Washington UFO reports from 2001 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).
Full Report Text:
Approx. 20:27 hours, under a clear sky and the moon out, I noticed something moving across the sky. It caught my attention in the southeast, and traveled northward and faded away before it reached the horizon.
There were two lights, that eminated rectangular shaped glows, and moved as though they were part of one object. They flew silently across the sky, and had no flashing navigation lights. They appeared to be traveling at about half the distance that satelites orbit the planet, and were very fast.
Full Report Text:
cluster of peanut-brittle colored balls flying in loose formation I've delayed reporting this, but if others have seen a similar object, I hope this can be of help. I wrote down the details the day after the sighting, so nothing is lost due to time passed. I opened my sliding glass door to my back porch on the night/morning (11/18/2001) of the Leonid meteor shower at approximately 4:30-4:45 AM.
The porch faces south. I was standing in the doorway looking up, catching 3-4 good meteor trails, when I noticed a faint, brownish-amber object (closely resembling the illustration on your site of the May 13, 2001 sighting of a dimly lit craft over Bangalore India) moving NE-SW at a slow rate of speed. It looked like an arrowhead-shaped clump of approx.
two dozen or so peanut-brittle colored balls, not 100% solidly in formation, loose, but definitely organized. No sound. Whatever it was, it wasn't self-illuminated, rather it seemed to be dimly reflecting light from the town below.
My best guess is that I was looking at a flock of migratory birds flying at night -- is this common this time of year in the Northwest? However, two things prompted me to make this report to you: (1) the object *did* strongly remind me of the object seen over India; and (2) I just read on the NUFORC site that someone reported seeing a (what I interpreted as a strikingly) similar object in Seattle (about 90 miles due south of me) the same night, albeit earlier.
Full Report Text:
Large, Sunlight reflecting metallic saucer seen in Bellingham, Wa. Saw a very bright saucer shaped object that was approximately 1.5 - 2 miles west of my position.
It's position was near the Bellingham Airport. Above it. The object remained stationary and seemed to have another smaller object hovering near it.
Smaller object was undiscernable except for the sun reflecting off of it. The Larger ufo object was highly noticeable because of the brightness of the sunlight that was reflecting from it. I did not see it move at all, but it was appearing be about 1000 feet in altitude.
I got tired of looking at it after 20 minutes because it was hard to look at because of the brightness, then when I looked again it was gone. and the smaller light reflecting object was gone also. I could not discern any details about the craft except for it's basic saucer like shape and twas metallic and reflecting light.
also was fairly large because it was a ways away, maybe not over a half mile, but I couldnt be sure. Seemed like it was more like 1-2 miles in distance from me. The airport was about a mile from my position at the time.
The smaller object may have been a helicopter, butI couldnt hear a thing.
Full Report Text:
4 where seen one was large kind of gold in color with red lights on the top and bottom, it stayed stationary then a small one flew away from the large one above and did little loops, I could see windows in it it flew away from the larger one really fast and took off to the north the other two having flashing blue, red, green lights that go in circles around it. this was the strangest thing I have ever witnessed in my life!.
Full Report Text:
The craft had no sound or lights at all. I was standing out on the porch having a smoke looking out over the water to the west. Its a clear night so i can see the stars.
Straight out in front of me I saw 3 stars that almost make a strait horisontal line if you conect them and then they vanished. When they came back into view i noticed the starts over my head do the same and i could make out a large rectangle about the size of a football field about 500 feet up or so moving south and was lost over the local terrains hills after about 15 seconds.
Full Report Text:
Black triangular object moving erratically in sky. My mother and I were in the car when I noticed a bizarre object moving erratically in the sky. It seemed to have lights at each tip indicating a possible triangular shape-- however, we weren't underneath it so it was hard to tell.
What caught our attention though was how it moved: It seemed to be moving faster than a normal airplane. It made large circles in the sky for some odd reason, then it headed northwards and crossed Bellingham Bay, rather fast I might mention, and then we noticed that there was another light up there with it-- by this time though they were pretty far away. That's it.
Also, when it was closest to us it appeared to by quite long, and dark black too, it seemed to be larger than a plane should be from that distance.
Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings From 2001 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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Formation | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings From 2001 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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June | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings From 2001 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 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings From 2001 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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12/23/01 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
07/25/01 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
04/20/01 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
01/10/01 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
06/12/01 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Bellingham, Washington UFO Sightings From 2001 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
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All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2001
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