Tacoma, Washington UFO Sightings in 2001

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The object emitted other objects I have a Camaro with glass T tops and I was laying on my back working under the dash and I looked up and saw what looked like a mylar balloon. Shiny and reflective. The wind was blowing but it wasn't moving.

After about 5 minutes I saw 2 smaller round craft come from the larger one. Both went to the left, one going upward and the other going downward at about 45 degrees. The whole thing lasted about 10 min.

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A light, reddish orange in color, resembling that of an aircraft, approached from the West briefly, then dipped and disappeared. I went outside the house to smoke a cigarrette. The porch light was on.

A car had passed by in the neighborhood and it sounded as if it had just blown a tire a block or so away before approaching our (my fiance and I) house. This is unrelated, I'm sure. I am always aware of my surroundings and we do get many military craft flying in to the local military base.

I noticed a what appearded to be an aircraft flying in toward Tacoma from the West. This is not a normal flight path but some planes do fly in this direction I suppose headed toward Sea Tac or Boeing Field in Seattle. At first I noticed the color of the light wasn't 'normal' - more of a reddish/orange light.

And I was wiating for familiar 'wing lights' to be present. This was a single light and it appeared to be moving in a very straight (due East) direction. I watched it for a few seconds and maybe after 20 seconds or so I noticed the light dimming (this object appeared to be headed toward my direction) and slightly dip dramatically straight down and disappear.

This is hard to judge distance (of course) but if my field of view was shown in a photograph I suppose the 'dipping' of the object would be measured as 1/4 inches on an 8X10 photo. So, this didn't dip very far before disappearing. There were clouds present and this object appeared behind the clouds but was very visible.

I have never reported a sighting before. I wanted to report this and am sure other's saw this. I am not aware of any other places to make a report to - I suppose I could contact the newspaper, but don't know if it would be treated with any credibility.

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UFO observed visiting several homes in my neighborhood Had been hearing a distinctive humming for a couple months prior to the sighting. On the night in particular we turned off the lights pretending to go to bed but stayed quietly inside observing out the windows. At around 3:30am we began to hear the hum, but then it changed into the sound of a small aircraft.

I then observed white lights just above the trees at the side of the house circling over the tree-tops. It made at least 6 circles. We then opened the back door to look at the 'airplane' when it suddenly turned on very bright white lights and slowly moved toward the back behind our home and went down about 2 blocks behind us in the neighborhood.

It later appeared to approach our house from the back direction when it suddenly began flashing lights all over the craft and turned slightly to my left and came down at a house on our street about 1 block away. At approximately 5am I had gone to bed but the other 2 witnesses observed the craft right over our house, it was straight above their heads, then it appeared to go straight up until it looked like just another star. It was a black cylinder shape with two round appendeges on either side which appeared to rotate with lights on them.

The back end of the cylinder appeared to open and close with the thrumming of the sound and when open the inside could only be described as having 'liquid' light. We got a camcorder the next day, and saw it that night but at a distance and attempted to capture it on video, and though it doesn't look like a normal aircraft the video isn't that definative. I think this is important and needs to be shared.

((NUFORC Note: Witness includes photographs of object, apparently fabricated out of which paper. It looks somewhat like a BOMARC missile. We will attempt to post the photograph.

PD)).