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Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 39 UFO sighting reports in Spanaway, Washington to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (6 reports, 15.38% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 20.51% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 17.95% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 12.82% of total).
- 06/25/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 5.13% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (23 reports, 58.97% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Spanaway, Washington
These Spanaway, Washington UFO reports 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).
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Star started to move, zig zag, blink in an out, take sharp turns I'm twenty nine years old and I've never seen anything like this. I stepped outside to hit my vape and get some nicotine in my system, and when I do so at night (in this case about 10:50pm) I like to look up at the sky, we're near JBLM so theres always planes, I frequently see satellites, even got to see Mr. Elon Musk's string of satellites flying through the air.
But tonight was something different I was looking at what I thought was a star, until it started moving then my mind jumped to satellite. But it was anything but, it started to move fast and sporratically. Taking sharp turns, up and down, left and right, I took my phone out and started recording as quickly as I could.
It was also strange to me that my phone camera wasn't picking up any of the other stars and yet somehow had no issue seeing the one light in the sky I was trying to record (thankfully) I ran back into my house to get my cousin to come out to be extraordinarily sure I wasn't going crazy. But by the time we made it back out of the house to look, it was gone, so much for an extra witness. Now I regret taking my eyes off of it.
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two black dots in sky flying symmetrically and flashing blue at beginning of sighting. me and my brother (Me - 12 Him - 7) saw two black dots flying completely symmetrically and at the exact same speed, when we first saw them they were flashing blue, but then stopped after around ten seconds, we could only see them when they were in front of a cloud but when they went in front of the blue sky they were impossible to see, they couldn't have been drones because it would take an extremely skilled person to fly a drone completely symmetrically and at the same speed along with another person doing the same thing, also they were too far up to be looking down with cameras (around 2,500ft up) they also looked like black dots, though I couldn't tell what shape it was.
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A large craft with numerous lights forming a line moving silently towards Mt. Rainier (east).
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A large bright stationary "star" spit out several star looking objects which would then disperse in different directions. A large bright stationary "star" spit out several star looking objects which would then disperse in different directions. The objects then moved across the sky in different directions while visibly dodging other objects in the sky.
Some of these formed triangles following a single craft. The large bright stationary "star" then spit out 1 large RED CRAFT. These objects were high enough in the sky to have the appearance of stars.
The red craft shot across the sky diagonally which crossed directly above me and my sister. The res craft was bright enough that we figured we could pick it up on camera. I started recording and my sister asked jokingly asked the "ufo" if the aliens were here to let us know they are here.
Immediately the craft stopped propelling directly above us when she asked almost as if it knew we were staring at it. The craft then flashed BRIGHT lights down at us and descended towards us rapidly while continuing to flash at us. Each flash had a heatwave that came with it and our faces felt sunburned while our heads felt like we just had ct-scans.
The craft then hovered above us at an estimated 500 feet above us. It went from clearly above 30,000ft to 500ft above us in a matter of seconds. As it flashed at us I felt magnetized to stare and almost stuck where I was.
It started to get closer and my sister ran inside shouting "RUN" but I felt like I couldnt move. To be honest I don't know how long I stayed outside staring up at the bottom of this craft. When we went outside about 10 minutes later the craft was gone but you could smell melted tar from our roof.
We then watched multiple crafts roam the sky the entire night. I do feel that if I had stayed outside longer when the red craft came down that I would have been taken. I am actually not sure if I lost time or actually was taken because the next thing I knew it was nearly midnight.
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Low hovering craft Me and a friend were headed to Arby’s on mountain Highway in Spanaway, WA as we are driving down 176th and approaching B st at the intersection there it’s a traffic light as well as we looked to the right we both screamed “Oh my god” we both saw what looked possibly like a mini stealth bomber or drone barely moving almost hovering about 100 to 159 feet off the ground. It was black really thin and had two or three lights on the bottom. It was about about 500 to 800 feet across I think I’m not good with guessing that type of stuff, but we were freaking out we looked at each other in disbelieve then when we looked back it just had disappeared in the trees.
It was insane. I believe it was a military aircraft but what was it doing out there?.
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Three bright reddish pink lights in a triangle formation with a little white object traveling out of it and heading SE across the sky Three bright reddish pink lights in triangular formation with one little tiny white light flying from it going across the sky heading in a SE direction. It was a cloudy night except where this object or objects hovered. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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I could not sleep so I went out to smoke looked up facing south and noticed a bright light that wasn't familiar. I've lived there 17 years; I know my sky. So I went inside grabbed my binoculars saw it was odd then went back inside for my camera and new batteries.
two pictures batteries die, replaced them took two more pictures and they die too. After a half hour and 3 sets of batteries I got twelve pictures. Very strange colors so bright and changing shape and subtle movements.
I have lived near my local military bases forever no plane or craft looked like this. I watched it til it disappears around 2a.m.
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Huge Bright Red Glowing Sphere/Ball Falling out of the sky in Spanaway/Fredrickson area I was heading down 224th in Spanaway going from West to East at 11:41pm tonight, while talking on the phone to my husband. Out of nowhere, a bit to the left, there was a huge red ball falling at a high rate of speed. It looked like a huge red falling star, or a beyond huge flare.
It wasn't blinking, or changing color, just huge and bright red sphere/ball falling from the sky heading East. It wasn't a plane, or helicopter, as there is a little airport close to where it was, but it was going beyond that and looked like it was going to land in the Classic Golf Course in Spanaway area, or a bit North of the golf course. I have never seen anything like it.
It lit the sky like noting else I have ever seen. The car in front of me slowed way down and I was yelling at my husband to hurry up and go outside to look at it. Tried to find my phone, but couldn't in time.
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Odd object hovering above. Around midnight, all at once, it seemed like every dog in the neighborhood started barking - crazy barking. I thought someone was either prowling in my yard or my neighbor's yard.
We've had problems in this regard. I grabbed my gun and ran outside. When I got out to my front yard, I heard an odd whirling sound.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw some pulsating lights coming from above. I looked up and there was a large object hovering over me emitting flashing lights. It was around 500 feet up and appeared to be larger than a helicopter or small airplane.
I ran back inside the house and grabbed my phone. When I returned to my front yard, the object was still there only at a much higher altitude. It stated racing off in another direction while ascending upward.
((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether this is intended as a serious report. We have attempted to contact the source, but have not yet managed to reach him. PD)).
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Object was moving fast from West to the east and it looked lower than commercial Airlines. Duration was about 2 seconds. It was a greenish blue with a short yellowish green tail or flame.
This happened at 6:55am.
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Black and bronze disk and or a haze where object became invisible. We were driving on Mountain Hwy road and noticed what looked like a very bright multi- colored star, but seemed too close to be a star. We decided to film it and noticed what looked like, a disk shaped ufo.
Doing a frame by frame of the video, I was able to get ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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huge sphere/un-cloaked RIGHT in front of us,then took off warp speed/military helicopters EVERYWHERE afterwards all night long/FT. Lewis During the meteor shower my girlfriend, my daughter, and myself were outside watching the very beginning of the shower. All of a sudden we start seeing a very bright light in the sky jumping around all over the place like a bouncy ball in the sky, nothing our crafts can do, as we are watching it, a HUGE disk-like object appeared out of no-where and accelerated at a speed i have never seen in my life.
It was completely quiet, extremely close, and lit the entire sky and surrounding area up like day light when it took off. It took off so fast from a dead stop that it left a tracer of itself momentarily and had almost a plasma looking tail coming off he end of it, and in a flash it was gone, leaving a trail behind it which lingered for a moment. It shot off towards FT.
Lewis, SW direction, and lit the ENTIRE sky when it did. However, it was faced almost in a downward direction when it took off, and looked like it could have landed in the FT. Lewis woods.
Almost immediately afterwards, the sky lit up with unmarked helicopters which searched the back woods of Ft. Lewis for HOURS. They were definately looking for something, thry flew extremely low and had no lights or markers on, could only see the red blink of a safety light occasionally and you could hear the thunderous engines of the helicopters working overtime all night.
We also noticed that almost right after the "ufo crash" or whatever it may have been, there were bright dots in the sky which would randomly show up, do some extremely crazy aeirial acrobatics, then appear to fade away. One of them came extremely close, and was bright as a spotlight, it was a completely round, extremely bright, white light that seemed to scan the area. I also think it's important to document that both my daughter, my girlfriend, and I kept feeling as though we were being watched, even before te sighting when we were just watching the meteor shower, and when the craft first appeared, it did seem to appear out of no-where.
I have seen MANY meteor showers, as have my daughter and girlfriend. What we saw WAS NOT A METEOR, nor were the other objects. We also noticed more military planes and helicopters in the sky as the night went on, all neglecting to put on their main lights, just a couple red lights keep from having mid air collisions.
I finally went to bed at a.m., and I could still hear the helicopters searching for whatever.
It is important to note that there was not a single military vehicle in the air or area until literally RIGHT after the UFO sighting, all neighborhood dogs were going absolutely CRAZY. It was as if this thing un-cloaked itself and went into warp speed right in front of us. It was absoutely incredible, and I will NEVER forget what we saw last night for the rest of my life.
Being during a meteor shower, I'm sure everyone will write it off as a meteor, but we know what we saw, and so does the military apparently, and that was NO METEOR. Thank you for listening and for giving people somewhere to report our! sighting without feeling like we are going to be called crazy, I hope this is able to help someone in finding out the truth about what is going on in our skies and our world.
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I have seen what I thought may be a helicopter over Spanaway for 10 nights, or so, and I watched it for an hour hover and slightly move. Grabbed the binoculars because my neighbor's huge spot light was lighting up the woods behind my place. When I look through binoculars I can see red, green and blue lights.
My husband thought it was a star until he took a closer look. Will a star or helicopter have those color lights blinking. I also saw 2 triangle shaped silent air craft with one white lights on a side and red in the front.
They were flying low and I am very familiar with the sounds of planes living near JBLM ((Joint Base Ft. Lewis/McChord AFB. PD)) (base), Seatac airport, and a private airstrip 10 miles away.
There were also 2 big weird lights I could see through the tress in the county property behind my house which of course could have been someone that broke in back there, but that would be a first. One of the lights faded out then a new light appeared on the opposite side of the light that rem! ained lit. Then went out a few minutes later.
I watched the remaining light for awhile to see if it was a lantern, but it didn't move, so I think it it a vehicle of some sort. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star, given the number of nights the witnesses have observed the object. PD)).
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Yellowish light moving at extremely hight rate of speed My son-in-law and I along with his two very young children were on the back deck of my home looking at stars before the children went to bed. Suddenly, to the west, a circular light appeared, moved in a northerly direction for about 15 seconds, and disappeared. The light moved at a phenomenal rate of speed, much faster than any jet, even military, which I have ever seen.
In all fairness, I will admit that there is an Air Force base to the west of us, but the light did not move all the way across the sky, just suddenly appearing and disappearing. It did not fall from the sky light like a meteorite. There was no sound associated with the event.
My son-in-law also saw the light and commented on the incredible rate of speed of the vessel.
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Bright green oval light go down around 224th St. Green streak in low sky.above trees and disappear into the trees.
((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor, we suspect. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Saw something weird in the sky. It appeared out of nowhere. Four bright white lights.
I saw it from my bathroom window. It looked like the lights of a huge jet that is getting ready to land except it was no where near the base to where it would land and it was too high up to land. I called for my roommate and he froze when he saw it.
Then as if it knew we saw it and were watching it started to dim it's lights out as if to hide. You could still see a dark shape. Big! Moving up just a little.
It was floating in place.it didn't move the whole time we were watching it except to dim its lights out. It was a clear night sky only some clouds but it showed up right I between those clouds.
Midnight.
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Washington State 4th of July UFOS Just witnessed 7-8 bright orange craft to the west of my home. Undeniably UFOS. I have never seen anything like them in my life except for Youtube videos.
I wish someone else was here so I wouldn't feel crazy.
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Two circular white lights observed moving across sky, side by side at roughly a 45 degree angle. Two circular white lights were observed moving across the sky at a steady pace. The lights traveled side by side, but were (roughly) at a 45 degree angle from each other.
I was able to watch them for roughly 30 seconds before they disappeared. This event occurred roughly around 10:45 pm (22:45) Pacific time.
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23:00 (pacific time), two glowing spheres (like fire balls) were seen floating in the night sky. On the evening of July 4th, 2013, I spotted two anomalies in the sky. It was around 23:00 (pacific time), and I had just returned home from watching a fireworks display.
I got out of the car, opened up the back to retrieve some blankets, and for some reason or another felt compelled to look up at the sky. I first saw a single red/orange sphere (or fire ball is the best I can describe it)high up in the sky, slowly gliding from my left to the right. The sphere first went at a relatively slow pace (hovering in place for a few seconds at a time then slowly gliding again).
Then, after about a minute, it suddenly became immensely bright (to the point that it almost hurt my eyes) and seemed to become bigger. The sphere then flew from right to left to right again, and then zipped at an impressive speed across the night sky. As the object was zipping across the sky, I suddenly noticed that there was a second (identical) red/orange sphere beside of it (though it seemed to be at a slightly lower altitude beneath the other light).
Shortly after I saw the second sphere, they both zipped across the sky and out of my view. I am not sure if the second sphere had been there during the entirety of my "encounter" with the spheres, as I was so taken with the first one that I spotted. I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
So, I cannot say for sure if the second sphere appeared only when the first zipped across the sky, or if it had been hovering in that place the whole time. I would love to know what these objects were.
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Ball of fire in the sky twice in one night. We were getting ready to shoot off some small fireworks for the kids when my husband noticed a strange light in the sky. Myself and my neighbor got up to look and it looked like an orange fireball.
There were no flashing lights as if it were a plane, You could not see any shape to it to make us think it was a plane. There is an air strip very close to our house so we see planes regularly. It was just a ball of light high in the sky.
It went from East to West and then we lost sight of it. Later that night about 10:30pm we saw it again from our back porch. It was moving slower this time and almost hovering.
We went into get the camera but as we were trying to find a setting to take a decent picture in the dark it disappeared.
Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings 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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Light | 6 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Star | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings 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 | 8 reported sightings | 20.51% of all reports |
August | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings 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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Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Thursday | 7 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Saturday | 6 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Monday | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings 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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06/25/11 | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 2 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
11/27/17 | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
06/01/04 | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Spanaway, Washington UFO Sightings 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 | 23 reported sightings | 58.97% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
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