Kennewick, Washington UFO Sightings in 2016

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Southern sky lit up in bright flash. sky lit up in a flash to the south tonight, didn't last but a second, and this after seeing bright white light appeared as a very bright star or planet in daylight sky last month, with neighbors witnessing it also, called police, spoke to office who located in the sky while on the phone with me. He said he'd try to find out what it was.

Duration of event was over an hour, the object turned orange and disappeared at sunset. Then last night, bright white orb moving north to south over head in night sky, duration lasted about 30 seconds when the light went upward and vanished.

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Orange color oval with light on top and many lights on the bottom very distant through a telescope. UFO report of sighting 8-11-16. The purpose of this report is to identify objects that I have seen through my telescope, and not to claim a sighting of extraterrestrial aircraft.

On August 11, 2016, at 8:10 pm I observed a bright spot in the sky with my naked eye that was obviously not a star as the stars were not visible this early in the evening. After a few minutes I realized what I was seeing was not something I have seen before so I shot a picture and a short video with my cell phone and got my wife to come outside to have a look also. Using a 7x35 binocular I was able to resolve the object into a disc shape but no other detail was visible.

I set up my C-8 Celestron telescope to have a better look. The object resolved into an orange color object that was oval shape, had a flashing light on top, was rimmed with what appeared to be many lights around the circumference of the bottom side that were dimmer than the light on top, and seemed translucent like a fabric. After a few minutes of observing, I attached a video camera to the telescope and recorded a few minutes of video in two recordings.

After bumping my telescope I was not able to find the object again as it was getting farther away and dimmer during the observation. The video capture settings, frame rate at .844 per sec.

is to slow to stop movement so there is some motion blur in the images but enough detail to see structure of the object. The orange color had faded to whitish purple by the time I got the video recording. I do not see the lights that were around the bottom of the object in the video image that I saw through the eyepiece of the telescope.

The sighting lasted from 8:10 pm to 8:53 pm about 43 minutes until I lost sight of it. The direction of travel was southeast, and the object got smaller by about half and was viewed by me and my wife, before I went to video capture. My telescope was hastily set up and there were no stars to polar align the mount so the tracking is off a little with respect to the stars.

The tracking motor is running at sidereal rate and I used the manual slow motion controls to center the object when it ran out of the field of view. I have been using this telescope for 18 years and this camera for only a few times. I am experienced with deep sky astrophotography with several camera types and several telescope types for 17 years.

Technical information: Telescope, Celestron C-8 telescope, 200mm mirror f/10 with f/3.3 focal reducer. Calculated focal length 686 mm.

Camera, ZWO ASI 120 MC color video camera with 3.5 x 3.5 micron pixels, 1280x960 image size.

Capture at .844 frames per second. All technical data is available.

Approximately 420 frames of data available with object visible. Two video files 903 MB and 893 MB. Three still captures from video.

Approximate RA 21h 46m, DEC 9 deg.

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3 large silent, slow moving fiery orbs moving across the sky in an arc, one after the other in a timely manner. 9:50 PM After coming home from a walk, the two of us noticed an object in the sky. There were 3 large, fireball-like orbs smoothly traveling their own curved routes, one after the other.

They were a bright, rich orange, colored and glowing like fire. The first moved towards us, then turned in path and continued to the left of us (North), dimming increasingly but maintaining its size, pulsating, and controlled demeanor. About 3 minutes after we first spotted it, right as we were struggling to keep track of it in the distance, the second appeared from the same place the first had in the sky.

It seemed to move slightly closer towards us, turned at the same point as the first, and followed in the same direction but in a tighter arc. When what seemed to be the exact same amount of time in between the first and second sightings had passed, and it was just getting out of sight, the third appeared. After turning, this one made the widest arc and came closest to us by doing so.

Despite standing in the middle of a parking lot, staring up at the sky, commenting, and recording the encounter, it was as if all pedestrian traffic resumed minutes after the third had passed, and the one person who did walk right by us in the middle of the event didn’t seem to notice either us or the sky. There were no clouds and stars were out.

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Observed three fireballs in triangular formation. Objects were moving slowly accross sky. NNW heading.

Hovered for 3 to five minutes. Before fading up and to the west. Objects made no noise like a rocket would.

At first glance it appeared as a plane on fire. But when object hovered and made no descent, but Instead ascended. Myself and witness could make no sure deduction as to what we were seeing other than UFO.

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Kennewick residents witness 3 orange lights in formation, with 4 indivdual lights following for several minutes. At approximately 12:26 am pacific time, I stepped outside my home to check that my garage door had been closed before I went to bed. I turned to step back inside and I noticed three bright orange lights in a triangle formation to the West.

I thought it was peculiar they were not moving very fast at all and seemed to be hovering (we have many aircraft flying over head to and from the commercial airport, but these lights were different). Then after only a few seconds of observing them, it appeared that they began to rotate on one axis, then on another but remaining in triangular form and distance from each other. As they began to rotate in unison, two other large orange lights emerged in my view, following closely behind and in the path of the first three lights.

I could now see five lights. I then ran inside, got my wife out of bed, and she then confirmed she could see what I was seeing. She witnessed the three lights in triangular formation, and the two lights following closely behind.

I ran back inside, and woke up my visiting parents so they could also observe. The four of us watched as the three lights in triangular formation separated from formation and slowly rose in altitude in to the clouds illuminated by their light. As they rose we began to lose sight of them, two additional lights came in to view, and began to follow the first set of two lights.

All lights were moving in the same general path, rising in altitude above the clouds and out of view. Yes it was early New Years day - No, we were not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides little contact information.

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