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Analysis of Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings in 2012
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Bothell, Washington to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "circle" (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- July was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Wednesday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- 07/04/12 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 100.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Bothell, Washington from 2012
These Bothell, Washington UFO reports from 2012 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:
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.
Full Report Text:
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.
Full Report Text:
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.
Full Report Text:
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.
Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings From 2012 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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Circle | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings From 2012 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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Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings From 2012 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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07/04/12 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
02/21/12 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
02/08/12 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 4 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Other Years with Reported UFO sightings in Bothell, Washington
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All Washington Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2012
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