Spokane, Washington UFO Sightings in 2001

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I was up working late, I work from my home, I am 15 miles south of Spokane, WA I heard a loud noise above my sewing machine and stereo, I turned off the stereo and went out of my front door, facing north, I saw two distinct lights, one was red, one ws white, both so bright and strobing so fast that I could not make out a shape. It was very big as it was just above the tree tops, I have 6 large pine trees in my front yard, this thing was passing over very slowly. I know it was not a plane as it was far too low, and not a helecopter as it was not that type of noise.

It was loud, and it passed completely over the house, going south, I then went to a southern window watched it proceed about 1/4 mile over a field to a tree line that goes into a wooded area. I then saw another light white, at the edge of the tree line also. This light was not strobing like the other was.

The one that was strobing then hovered there at the tree line for about 30 minutes then it faded away. The other light however, stayed there hovering at the tree line for about another 30 minutes then it dissappeared. There are not houses around that area, as I ride my horses in the woods surrounding that area all of the time.

I don't know what these crafts were as it was dark, very dark that night and I could not make out any shapes. I have never witnessed anything like this before in the six years that we have lived in this house. We have lived in this area for 10 years.

I am going to go out to that area with my husband tomorrow November 25, we have a four wheeler, I am curious to see if there is any type of proof left behind.

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Very small spere "lights" clustered far up in the sky with one lower. On a cloudless day I looked up to actually look for these things because this is not the first instance. I did not expect anything but this time there was a cluster of 5.

I was riding a bicycle and when I got to my brothers house at approx.4:35, I made them look. We counted 7 small circular "lights" far up in the sky.

I don't know if they had lights or were reflecting light. I watched one move in front of or behind and appear on the other side of another. They were moving in diferent patterns.

Once all in a straight line. All moving north. One of these "objects" was much lower than the others.

I thought it must be something else but my brother had binoculars. This one looked like an E and it was a spectrum on it or green and yellow lights. We watched this for about 15 minutes before they disappeared.

The other events happened in the daylight also and on clear days around 5:00. The 1st event I saw 3, two stationary and 1 moving south(my neibor saw this one). The second event 08/18/01 at 4:30, I was downtown with my husband(who doesn't believe this), I was trying to explain about the ufo and I said to him "Just imagine something so small like a ball of a ballpoint pen up in the sky.

" Then I saw 1. He could not see it. There may have been more but this one was between trees.

I did not think I would ever see these again after the first time but I have. twice. Just look up on a clear sky.

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((NUFORC Note: Copied report submitted via e-message. PD)) Date Aug. 21, Time 9:40 P.

M. I am writing in regards to what my husband and I saw tonight. At approximately 8:35 this evening we heard and saw a turboprop aircraft, coming over the horizon from the west.

There were no lights on the plane at all. The plane was coming over the top of our place at around 3000 ft. To the left of the plane fairly close, were two small objects with lights red and light yellow or white.

Compared to the plane they were quit a bit smaller. I left the back of the house to go to the front to get a better look, when I got to the front yard I saw 5 strobing lights about 500 ft. apart following behind the turboprop.

going north east.This time I could not see the objects only the lights, very bright and blinking or strobing red and white or yellow. Then the turbo made a left turn lights following him going west again, all disappeared in the clouds.

It was very unusual, and unlike anything I have seen before. We heard the plane several times earlier in the evening but did not go out to look at it so I don't know if the lights were there at that time. There was only the sound from the turboprop aircraft, no other aircraft sounds.

We thought it might be connected with the fires here in eastern Washington. Since you investigate sightings, I thought you might be able to tell us what you thought the lights were that accompanied that plane. Thank you, ((name deleted)) ((ADDENDUM TO ORIGINAL REPORT)) Hi Peter, I've spent the morning on the phone.

I was able to speak to the supervisor of Spokane tower and approach control. He said that they do not cover our area which is north of Evans, WA on Hwy 25 and next to the Columbia River. However, he was very interested in the details of this phenomena and asked to be kept informed if we were able to establish any further information.

He suggested that contacting Whidbey Island Naval Air Station would probably not produce any results. I also assume that Seattle Center would not be willing to disclose any information. A quick bio, I'm ((age deleted)), ((number of thousands of hours deleted)) hours of flying air charter and flight instruction in the Seattle area, but that was over 20 years ago.

And another point I feel should be mentioned is we have had a lot of aircraft activity in this area because of the forest fire on Mount Leona in Ferry County and military aircraft operating in Roosevelt MOA, therefore this started out as not to unusual. I saw what looked like a Lockheed Martin EP-3E Aries II or similar, but the color was dark olive gray or charcoal brown. It was flying from west to east about 3000' to 4000' above ground level.

It's location when we first saw it was about 48 degrees and 45 minutes north and 118 degrees and 10 minutes west. I was moving at normal cruise speed. It's navigation lights and strobe were off.

It was an unusual aircraft for this area. My first thought was they were doing a infrared scan of the fire area. I did think it strange not to have the nav lights on, especially when we were in the evening transition period with a lot of air traffic in the area.

That's when my wife said there were two other lights beside it. I moved to a better location to see it. That's when I saw two very intense strobe lights flashing red and white.

One of them moved into close-formation on its starboard quarter, less than a 100'. Then I noticed another strobe light appear next to the outboard one. I did not see the third light approach, it just appeared.

I could not hear any noise other than the sound of the turbine engines on the large aircraft. I couldn't see any physical aircraft near or around the strobe lights. At this point I had to move to another location to continue to watch.

When I regained a view of them there were four strobe lights flying in an echelon formation from the aircrafts starboard quarter with equal spacing of about 500'. Then again another strobe light just appeared outside the fourth one. Then the strangest part started, they began to disappear and reappear over and over again, but in different positions.

Or, there were more than five of them, but only five showing at any given time. Finally, the large aircraft started a gradual left turn, back to the west and shortly disappeared behind the clouds north of us. We stood there thunderstruck.

Peter, I've had two physical sightings in my life time. The first was in the service and it was a subsurface craft that went directly under our ship and visible. The second was also on the ocean during a return trip on a 44' racing sailboat 1000' miles north of Hawaii with 8 witnesses, it was larger than an aircraft carrier and about a 1000' from us.

So I'm not new to this game, but this one is a mystery for me. I don't know what to think. I'm just reaching out for help in understanding what my wife and I have witnessed.

I had no problem accepting the physical sightings, but this one left me with to many possibilities to consider. Now I understand why there are so many that start doubting what they really saw because there isn't any hard evidence. We wish to remain anonymous, however we don't mind you using this information for your research or sharing it with others.

We're watching the sky more closely, ((names deleted)).

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Unusual light outside my bedroom window. I was going to bed and decided to raise my blinds and open the window for some fresh air. As I laid my head on my pillow, I noticed a light in the sky.

I thought it was a bright star at first but as I kept looking I knew it wasn't a star. So, I thought it must be an airplane. I then saw a red and green flashing light.

I thought it was surely an airplane but it was not moving. It just stayed in the spot it was in when I first noticed it. I continued to lay in bed and look at the light, why, I don't know.

Suddenly it looked as if it were falling very fast and then stop instantly. It did not fall a very long time but it was fast and then an abrupt stop. I felt a little funny inside when I saw that and got out of bed to look out my window closer.

(It was 12:22 a.m. at this point) As I strained to look out my screen, the light seemed to by spinning and I could see flashing or spinning red, green, and gold/yellow lights.

I looked aroud the clear sky and compared what I was looking at to the other "stars" in the sky. They did not look similar. The stars were plain and not moving and this light I was watching had color and movement.

I just continued to watch because I wanted to see it move again. It did move again and this time it was in an "S" movement up and then down again. Not too high or low just small movements within a certain area (I was looking between two tall trees and could see it the whole time)The movement is what kept me watching, it reminded me of playing video games and how fast and over exagerated we can move objects with the controllers.

Then it began moving toward the trees very slowly and sometimes with a little dip or two. I watched it until it disappeared behind the trees. It was 12:50 a.

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A black spherical object was sighted in Spokane, WA traveling a NorthEasterly direction, during a thunder-storm. A black spherical object was sighted, traveling in a North-Easterly direction at an altitude of approximately 300-500 ft. above the ground, and at a moderate rate of speed, during an electromagnetic thunder-storm in Spokane, Washington.

The sky was heavily overcast, with winds of 35+ m.p.h.

The object had no identifying marks or lettering, made no sound, and was completely black with no visible external lights or contrail. During the event time, the object did not change heading or speed, and there were no other visible aircraft in the vicinity. The total elapsed time of the visible event, 12 seconds.

The observer was Male, 42 Years of Age, had a college education, and worked for a major telecommunications utility for 20 years.

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i was rideing my bike home from shcool and saw a cigar saped object in the sky it had two lights on each of the sides and one bright li i was rideing my bike home from shcool and saw a cigar saped object in the sky it had two lights on each of the sides and one bright light in the middle folowed me for abought 5 min. and fastly flu away in the air untill i could not see the object any more ((NUFORC Note: Not other reports that we are aware of. PD)).