Kennewick, Washington UFO Sightings in 2001

Full Report Text:

U.F.O disguised as a satellite sneaks through the night sky! At 21:19 hours, a single small white light viewed in the southern portion of the sky, traveled from the N.

W. towards the S.E.

portion of the sky at elevation plus thirty degrees from the right of MARS maintaining 30 degrees until reaching due south and then slowly fading out,like a lantern out of fuel. This lasted for about one minute. The sky was clear with calm winds.

((NUFORC Note: We do not know what the witness observed, but satellites do fade from view as they course to the east. PD)).

Full Report Text:

Silent, orange ball of light seen crossing the night sky in Kennewick, WA. I was looking out my window towards the north and noticed a bright orange light appearing to be rising from several miles away, as it broke over the shadow. The object was first thought to be a large firework, but the object did not explode, nor did it stop rising after several seconds.

I then thought that it might be an airplane taking off, as the airport is in that general direction. The object then appeared to stop rising and track horizontally and southward after it had risen approximately three finger widths at arms length. At that point, the odd nature of the object instilled curiosity and a desire for further investigation.

I went outside, and through my binocularts tracked the object as it approached me at somewhat an obliwue angle. My binocular power setting was high at first, and revealed what appeared to be two orange lights seperated by a small distance. My hands were shakey, and at that power things were hard to focus, so my thought was that it was an airplane with wing-tipped landing/takeoff lights.

However, it struck me that the object was making no sound and the typical red and green marker lights were not seen. I then reduced the power on the binoculars, making it much easier to focus the object, and the thing I saw revealed itself. The object had a large central orange ball of light, in which a smaller orange ball of light circled at approximately one orbit per second.

Several seconds later orange debree was seen falling from the object, and slowly fading in color, as though it were cooling, and disapperaed prior to reaching the level of the trees and houses across the way. It was then that I thought the object might be burning material caught on an updraft and prevailing winds, but there were not winds sufficient enough to move the object across the sky as fast as it was travelling, nor did the object's shape and characteristic change after the falling debree. I continued to track the object for several more seconds until it just vanished.

Through the entire incident no sound was heard, and no other color was seen other than the orange of the two balls of light. Whether it was one object or two is not known to me. I wonder if others have seen this same object and can confirm what I observed.

Full Report Text:

Six cloverleaf shaped craft seen exiting a thunderstorm moving south at a high rate of speed I saw the first object through the window. My first impression was that I was seeing a cluster of balloons, but there was something strange about it. Then I noticed two more clusters and stepped outside.

It was then that I noticed each cluster consisted of four thin disks connected to one another in a cloverleaf type pattern. They were moving at a high rate of speed, faster than a jetliner would travel, from out of the thunderstorm to the northwest (the direction of Yakima)and into the blue sky to the southeast(toward Pendleton). They were flying at the same level the clouds were sitting, I'd say 20,000 ft and apeared to fly aerodynamically, banking side to side and turning (not rotating) but continuing on the same flight path.

The three were in a staggered trailing formation, maybe a couple miles of separation but not a uniformed distance from one to the other. They were traveling the same speed however. I went inside and grabbed a pair of binoculars, when I came back out the first three were out of visual range but there were two more just coming out of the storm.

I was able to focus in on one and got a good look. It kept banking back and forth in a side to side motion, it almost appeared like it was having fun doing whatever it was doing. Maybe it was fighting the wind from the storm.

I didn't notice any decernable surface feautures, it appreared to be a uniform grey color, no nozzles, intakes, exhaust, windows, control surfaces, or lights. It was flat and smooth. At the flight level it was flying it looked about the size of a large private plane or a small business class jet, but moving much faster.

I watched it thought the binoculars until it disappeared behind the hills in the distance. It covered the distance, thunderstorm to horizon in about one minute. I continued to look in the direction they had been coming but didn't see anything.

I called my husband outside just as another one appeared from out of the storm. It flew in the same direction but the path was further south th! an the r est. By the time he saw it, it was too far away to make out anything other than a dot.

Full Report Text:

Observed traingular object with dim off-white lights on underside of each corner. Traveled with "no sound at all". Observed object traveling north to south from my front step.

I was facing east when I saw the object. It caught my eye at about my 10 o'clock position (east/west axis) 1 o'clock (north/south axis). It continued South, to about my 2 o'clock position, where it faded in the haze.

I observed the object for approximately 8 seconds. My view was blocked for about 1 second by a tree in my yard. The object traveled at a steady rate of speed and appeared not to veer from its southern course.

I could not determine its altitude. There was no sound during or after the object passed over my location. The object was the shape of an equilateral triangle, dark in color (slightly darker than the night sky), with what appeared to be dim off-white lights under each corner facing downward.

The "lights" on each corner reminded me of the new round LED brake lights used on trucks and buses. The lights were steady in brightness and did not flicker or pulse. After the oject had passed, I wondered why an aircraft would have such lights mounted on the underside.

Maybe they weren't lights. Perhaps this was the visible effects of propulsion.I don't know.

As a size reference, after the sighting, I cut out a ½-triangle from a piece of paper. Holding the triangle at arm length gave a good size aspect of the object.