All Reported UFO Sightings in Bothell, Washington

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Flash (meteor?) followed a “star” move quickly from left to right, in upside down arch. This is creeping me out. Second time in 3 weeks I’ve watched “stars” move.

Tonight star gazing on my deck. Saw a flash out of my left peripheral vision, thought maybe it was a late perseid meteor. Looked to the area and saw what i thought was a star, until the damn thing started moving.

It was at about my 10oclock, went kind of down to the right then in an upside down arch like a smile, kind of down, over and up to about 2 o’clock, then faded away by the bottom of the Big Dipper. It was moving damn fast and scared the crap out of me. Not an international flight, as I see them regularly and know what they look like.

This was WAY up high, fast and freaky. There’s a bunch of light pollution to my north, where I lost sight of it.

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Saw what I thought was a satellite, but it stopped. Moved around then remained stationary. Got my camera and the video is really weird I like to watch Seatac air traffic from my deck.

About 2 am I was sitting out there looking at clouds and a light caught my eye WAY up high. Moving at a pace like an international flight, west to east. But it was too high to be commercial jet so thought it was a satellite.

Until it stopped. It kind of moved around a bit before becoming stationary. Weather balloon? Are they lit up and look like stars? Got my camera, iPhone 14pro plus and started recording.

Saw a flash to the right of it, which was really odd, but nothing else interesting. Looked back at the video to see if the flash showed up and zoomed in a bit and oh man. I could see more flashes around it.

And it looks like the orb is flashing, or is emitting energy or something. It was just weird then really started doing flashy stuff (you’ll see) that’s freaking not normal. No clue what it is, but it’s really weird.

Saw something similar the end of June. Thought it was one of the planets to the west, but it was too bright. Decided it was a jet coming in from the ocean.

It just stayed there, so I thought damn, it’s way out there. Then it turned like it should, I could see the red lights on the left side. Ok good.

It’s a jet. but it just stopped. Huh? Then it traveled rather slowly from west to east.

From just above the horizon to almost overhead. Then stopped. Looked like it moved around like in a square but then thought my eyes were tricking me.

It just sat there. I watched it for about 20 minutes then went inside thinking “that was not normal”.

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Starlight UFO in sky going in odd directions There was a bright starlight in the sky and then I realized it was moving upward like a plane. It was right after the sun was setting, the whole sight was about 15 seconds. As it went up it suddenly took a 90 degree turn to the right.

I thought that was odd so I kept watching it. It went straight up in the air then dipped down, then back up again like a loop but fast enough it couldn't be a plane as if you were drawing with crayon in the sky. It went steady up and to the right in the sky.

Looking East near Mill Creek.

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Shiny object moving quickly across the sky N-S Mill Creek / N Bothell WA North Bothell, WA. Between 4:50-4:55 PM my wife and I were sitting on our front porch which faces East. I know this to be the exact time because we called my sister and cell phone shows called made at 4:52.

As we talked on speaker phone, my eye caught something moving north-to-south (from Mill Creek to Bothell) straight across the sky. It was hard to determine elevation and size but likely at a thousand feet or so and small, round shape (?). It was shiny and appeared reflective so hard to determine the exact shape.

I saw it first and asked. "what's that?" My wife looks up and immediately says, "a bird". I continued looking to make sure it wasn't a sea gull or white bird flapping wings, and beyond a doubt it was not a bird.

I said, no way that is a bird. That looks really strange. She could tell it wasn't a bird either and then replied, "a mylar balloon".

Ok, now a balloon caught in a wind current is a possibility and fits som! e of the description. I am rational and reasonable and this could explain it. However, something just seemed off about that explanation.

I tried to get my brain to see it as a mylar balloon but the size, speed and way it moved could not reconcile. I would not waste my time reporting this if I was confident it was just a balloon or a drone. We continued to watch it as continued out of view.

no other changes as it went out of sight. Am curious if anyone saw and reported this same object?.

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Two sets of 3 triangular formation red lights flying northbound, no sound, chemical smell afterwards. I went to my backyard to let the dog out, and as I was standing there facing south, I saw 3 red lights flying at normal aircraft speed, but in a triangle formation, going north directly my toward me, but very high in the ski. Just as they were about 70 degrees in sight, they gradually faded out.

No aircraft sounds, no blinking and the faded one by one. As the last one faded, the next set of 3 appeared, same triangle pattern, same exact flight path, same structure, same red light, same fade out. I didn’t have my cell phone, so I could not record it, but I went back outside and noticed a very strong chemical, burned plastic smell.

And the smell is still happening now, 30 minutes later.

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My mother any I were sitting out in one of my field, watching the the last of the Persieds and k-Cygnids. We managed to see a couple satellites and a few bonus straggles from the showers. Just as we were talking about going inside, I pointed out what seemed to be another satellite.

when all of a sudden the bright light zagged left. then right, paused, juked left, then shot off to the right and disappeared. It was traveling North to South, strait above us.

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There's a pulsating sphere in the Westen sky. Appears to slowly move North. Got video on two camera pl hones.

It pulses and gets larger or smaller. Does not appear to be an aircraft, meteor, or comet. It gets large and small again.

Captured on video.

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I got out of my bed and I looked outside of my window. Then I saw a bright yellow oval shaped object on the sky traveling really fast speed. It might have been a meteorite but I did not see any trail.

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Unidentifiable Aircraft over Bothell, WA - 20 giant type drones Last night, my daughter, my grandson, and I witnessed many type of aircraft. They were like giant drones, with lights all around. The way they were flying it was not a plane.

Two of them were very close to land and stationary. It was very scary and they were many of them over the intersection of Maltby Road SE and 35th Ave SE. Also in the intersection of Everett Hwy and Maltby Road SE.

I called 911 but they send me to report this to the FAA. I could not find anyone to answer the phone. These type of aircraft is totally unidentifiable and looks that is not from here.

The scary part of it is that they were many of them. Why is our government doing something about it? This is not a joke and many of us citizens have seeing these aircraft many times. My daughter was one time followed by one of them and she just drove as fast as she could.

This happened around midnight in 35th Ave SE, Bothell….

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Heard strange sound that couldve been someone Me and my brother were smoking weed at around 10:30pm to 12:30am. We were talking but he heard a "Graaaauuuuuchhh: sound repeatedly. We both heard it over and over again.

Then it went quiet and we went inside. Strangely enough when we went out again my brother said he heard the same sound on the other side of the street and that it seemed close. If some guy was just making noises its possible but he would need to be in a weird mood to do so.

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High speed horizontal flight silent blue cone with red streaking across sky at low altitude Saw a bright blue cone with orange streak access the sky. Thought it was a fireworks rocket at first. But then I sat up and noticed it was streaking across the sky almost horizontal.

There was no noise, but it was traveling at high rate of speed. Trail was not visible except for bright blue cone with red.

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Large flashing rainbow colored lights seen @630-7pm over I-405 N/S in Bothell/Woodinville/Juanita WA State area. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is observing the very bright and vivid star, Sirius. PD)) On tuesday 02/09/16 @ about 6:30/7pm In the Juanita Kirkland/Bothell/Totemlake/Woodinville/ right off the 160th st exit of I-405 N/S area of Washington state, I saw a light in the S-SE sky or so that was fading in and out in its brightness, And flashing in a rainbow color pattern, and was also slightly moving possitons while still staying in one general area.

The flashing rainbow light just stayed in that same general area dimming and flashing rainbow and kind of bobbing around as far as I know all night. Then On Wednesday 02/10/16 @ around the same time at night as on Tuesday (6:30pm-7pm) & In about the same location in the sky as it was on Tuesday night, I again saw the same flashing Rainbow colored light. At about an hour after first spotting the light again.

I noticed that afew small airplanes (2 to 3 of them & They looked smaller than a cessna and closer to military drone size, each with a bright white light at its center and a solid blue light on one wing! and a solid red light on the opposite wing.) Where starting to fly around the location of the rainbow colored flashing (not positive but I think triangular shaped) light. After about 30 mins of those small planes checking out the flashing raindow light 2 large (mostly blacked out) helicopters came flying over and started checking out the flashing light for a while as well.

Once the helicopters started to leave and the small planes started heading back, off to the SE-E direction I noticed another flashing rainbow light as well as a 3rd one farther off, and almost directly above my location I noticed a light like the flashing rainbow ones, except this one was instead brighteniging and dimming (in a flashing kind of sense) this deep, rich, radiant, bright, glowing Goldish/Yellow/Orange colored light(same triangular shaped craft as the flashing rainbow light craft) instead of rainbow like the others. I watched these lights for about another hour and a half or so and then the ! clouds start to come out & block out the rainbow & Goldish flashing lights, And right as that starts to happen I noticed the the sounds of planes AND helicopters in the area had increased as if a lot more of planes and helicopters where now in the area checking out these flashing rainbow lights & Goldish light and using the clouds as a cover for themselves to hide behind. My mother was also watching and hearing all of this as she was standing next to me for a large portion of the time that this had all been taken place in, I had also used my phone to try to record some of what I was seeing, I also called my brother and had him step out side and whiteness the flashing rainbow lights and Gold flashing light before the clouds covered them for the night.

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Father and son witness acrobatic orange orb over Bothell, WA. I stepped out on my back deck in which I have a full view of the Cascade Mountain range. A stationary orange light above the cloud line caught my attention.

It started to move slowly and I just figured it was an airplane coming towards me at a strange angle. Then it instantly shifted direction and stopped. Then went in another direction and kept moving slowly.

I called my son from the front room and said, "You gotta see this thing". We both watched it and tried to figure out what it could be. It then started moving slowly horizontally for some distance and stopped again.

Then made a vertical descent almost to the ground. This is when I could estimate how close it was as it was in front of the hill in my sight line. I'd say about a mile.

Then it was just gone.

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Object(s) in night sky Bothell, WA, Nov 20, 8:45PM. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that report is a hoax. Date is flawed, and source has failed to respond to our e-mailed messages.

We have changed the date. PD)) At about 22:45 in Bothell, WA, I was on my back deck and saw numerous objects (I believe 6) fly overhead. They had no lights but were clearly visible I'm assuming due to the city lights below.

They looked silverish-gray but that is probably the city light reflecting off them. They were in a "V" formation. One in front, two directly behind the first, and 3 behind the two.

The row with three, the one on the far right was off centered however. Appeared to be pulling away from the others but I can't be sure as I only saw the objects for a few seconds before they went over the tree line. There was no sound at all.

I cannot give an exact altitude but I'm guessing 1000-2000 feet due to the speed across the sky. Basically west to East. If they were at 10,000 feet they would have been the size of jumbo jets and going at least mach 4 or 5 so my assumption is much lower altitude.

Again, no sound at all which is not possible if it was a low-flying (or high flying) formation of jets. I cannot guarantee they were separate objects as it's a pitch black night sky, but it appeared they were, as one was out of formation. My first thought was maybe a big drone but the speed was too fast and the off-centeredness does not make sense.

I'm sure others saw what I saw too as it's a populated area. Very strange and never seen anything like it. ((CORRECTION FROM WITNESS)) Sorry it was 22:45 (10:45 pm).

give or take 10 mins ((END CORRECTION)) ((2ND CORRECTION FROM WITNESS)) Sorry it was 9/20. A few hours before I sent the email. I live by an International airport and within 25 miles of two Boeing airports so I see a lot of aircraft flying around.

Also seen Blue Angels many of times and it did look like an Angel formation, very close together. But if what I saw was military aircraft, judging by the size they would have been around 10,000 feet, flying very fast and there would have been sound. Was completely silent.

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Wobbly white light north of Seattle WA I had stepped outside for a moment and instinctively looked up at the stars. It was warm night and mostly clear. I saw what appeared to be a satellite, and watched it as it moved in a path towards the north east.

It as a white weak light, only slightly brighter as a star, and moving faster than I would expect a satellite to move. There were no blinking lights visible so I ruled it out as plane. A satellite also seeded unlikely as I am close to a major metropolitan area with some light pollution present.

What caught my attention that made this object unusual to me was that as it moved across the sky it appeared to have a slight wobble in its flight path. I wasn't sure if what I was seeing was correct, so I tracked it's movement relative to several other "stationary" stars and it did indeed seem to have a wobble. I eventually lost sight of the object after it passed over some trees in my neighbor's yard.

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Four red/orange orbs traveling horizontally in a perfect line, in perfect distance from each other I saw 4 orange/red fireballs traveling horizontally across the Western sky from the North to the South. I ran to get my binoculars, because they were traveling silently, in a perfect line, keeping perfect distance with each other, and traveling at the exact same speed. They looked so bright, and had a bit of a disc shape surrounding the bright orange/red center.

With my binaculars, they looked like comets, with space dust or something burning around them, and a bit of a short "tail." I watched them for a couple minutes, then realized I should document them, and ran to get my video camera. In a panic to capture the 4th one that was passing by, almost out of sight, (too many trees here in Washington state), I took a very distorted video.

My video looks like a blob, and not what I witnessed of the perfect formation, speed and travel of the objects through my binnaculars.

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Orange Orbs over Bothell - up close and explained It has become expected that on the 4th of July we look upwards to view the infamous orange orbs. We saw more this evening around 10pm than any other year: probably about 6, each in it's own position. (Not in a group.

) All sightings moved exactly the same, however. Silently and in the same direction (from the NW to the SE). Each had the same speed: guessing about 10 mph? All were also at the same altitude.

Each also just suddenly disappeared while watching. As noted, we have been mesmerized by this unique sighting for years and have posted UFO reports. Each year, however, we have only witnessed one over Bothell.

This year was exciting as we saw many. As always, we see these on the 4th of July. I can share we had a revelation this year as we experienced this orb up close and our understanding of what we have witnessed was changed.

A new "firework" was avaialble for purchase at our local shop called the Chinese Lantern. We set 3 of these off ourselves: one red, one orange, and one pink. Each had a fire actually in flame which raised this 2 ft long x 1 ft long paper lantern directly up.

It moved SE as the wind came from the NW. It floated quickly up and the higher it got the faster it moved. It was silent, of course.

It glowed "orange" from within. Explaining that beautiful "lit from within" result we've witnessed over the years. It glided steadily as we watched and the suddenly just went out.

It I took pictures of it with my 12x zoom level and compared it to the pictures of the orange orbs that moved over head. They looked exactly the same. (I will include them with this report.

) All sightings moved SE with the wind direction, and all were at the same altitude ! and speed. This reports our personal sightings here in Bothell which always occur on the 4th of July. We believe our sightings have been the Chinese Lanterns.

However, it is not intended to explain that is what all orb sightings are.

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Bright orange lit object with a red halo slowly flew over Bothell, WA. I was walking outside late tonight and I noticed bright orange light with a red halo slowly moving across the sky fling easterly. as I watched the object, the orange and red lights did not blink and I could not see other colors I would expect to see on an airplane or helicopter.

I heard no sound as I would expect from a larger plane. After a couple of minutes, the lights slowly dimmed and disappeared; However, I could see a dark silhouette of an object in the sky.

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I heard a very loud hellicopter and was looking for it behind the trees. It appeared with a whiteball very close in front of it. It looked like a star.

The hellicopter was very very close to the star like object. They were going hellicopter speed (slow) and the hellicopter was staying right on its tail (weird close like when the blue angles fly close together). They were going north to south.

It was not another helicopter or plane just a star looking object being escorted or chased. The helliopter had all its lights on. I have only heard a hellecopter that loud once before during the day and they were huge hellicopters.

We don't usully get helicopter flying around here very often never at night. My neighbor heard it to from her bedroom and thought it was weird. It was a little overcast full moon but a bright sky.

Kinda light outside.

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I saw what appeared to be a flying saucer that glided over and past my car on my my way home from work at night. I was driving home from work at about 10:15 pm. Upon turning from an intersection onto a straight away that led to my house, I saw a bright light up in the sky.

I was confused as to what it was so I kept my eyes on it. As I was driving towards it, I realized that it was also coming towards me at a very slight slant. It started out as high as a plane might be, but I noticed it was coming closer than I first thought.

I kept driving and the light was dimming slowly to where I could see that it had two blinking lights. One red light at the front and one green light on the back so I thought that it was just a plane. Problem was that it was too low, much smaller than an average plane and it wasn't making noise.

When our paths met, it was a few hundred feet above my car and the bright light was gone making the shape of it evident: a disk. It hovered over, past my car and that's when I pulled over to freak out and try to process what I just saw. I stared at the road in front of me for a second then turned my head to follow where it was going.

I made a quick u-turn and pulled over on the other side of the street to watch it glide over the neighborhoods and that's when I decided to follow it, but it went over an area of trees with no road. After about five minutes of driving towards it, it was no longer in sight and I decided I needed to go back home to do some research on UFOs.