Tacoma, Washington UFO Sightings in 2016

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3 white sometimes sparkling &/orange objects together at 5pm! 4 reliable witnesses- My 2 parents, myself (school teacher), and my 4 year old grand-niece. Last night around 5:00 p.m.

my mom discovered something in the clear bright blue sky. She told my dad and then they both called me to come outside to 'see what this strange object is'. My mom then said 'it's not a plane but we can't figure out what it is'.

I went outside and it was hard to see although it did sparkle and seem to reflect either the sun or had it's own light source. We grabbed the binoculars. Looking through the binoculars I could see that it at sometimes looked just white, and at others it was like an orange fire ball.

It wasn't moving quickly at all - seemingly staying in one spot for quite a while. My mom then noticed that there were two more! I was wondering if they were drones, skydivers, or something like that. At one point they looked like they were triangular in shape and a ball at others.

They seemed also to be in a triangle formation- but since they were hard to see all the time we don't know if that was a pattern or not. I shot some footage with my dad's iphone- poor quality but you can see it on the iphone if someone knows how to 'zoom in' after the fact. We weren't sure how long they would be in the sky so although we wanted to look at it through a telescope we didn't want to take our eyes off it it for too long in order to track one down.

In hindsight we should have called the news! Thought for SURE others would see it as well! Thought we could 'google it' the next day but there was no reports that we know of!.

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Five lights moved in unison from NW to SE across the Tacoma sky at night. While watching the night sky looking for shooting stars from the Perseid meteor shower, my wife and simultaneously observed 5 lights in a slight chevron formation moving quickly from NW to SE. The lights moved in exact unison like a single aircraft but the chevron was very large and there was no audible noise.

We live in the flight path of both SEA-TAC airport and McChord Air Force Base so we see multiple aircraft every day and night flying overhead. This group of lights did not resemble any aircraft we have ever seen nor did it move at the speed of any aircraft we have seen in this area. The lights at no time left a streak and did not blink or twinkle at any time.

They remained constant and solid until out of view. We cannot say whether it was a single aircraft with five lights or if the chevron was five separate objects moving in unison. However, the five lights never moved closer or further apart as they moved across the sky.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD)).

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Spherical UFO with rotating light spotted moving south over the Puget Sound and Narrows Bridge. On the evening of June 12, 2016, I was sitting in the living room of my aunt & uncle's house, talking to my cousin. I was facing a large bay window and through it I saw what I thought was a plane.

It was heading south, towards us, and had 3 blinking lights. Two on the left (when facing us) and one on the right. These lights blinked 2 then 1, 2 then 1, left then right, left then right.

As it got closer I couldn't make out its shape so I asked my cousin, "What's that?" He thought it might be a helicopter. To check if it was a helicopter I went outside to see if I could hear it. I could not.

By now the craft was overhead and west of us. It was essentially flying over the Narrows Bridge along the course southward over the Puget Sound. This is when I took out my iPhone and shot about 35 seconds of footage.

It was now 7:42 pm. I stopped filming because some trees would soon obscure my view. So I went in the backyard to continue watching it.

I asked my uncle what it was. He didn't know. I asked if it could be a helicopter, but he said it was too high.

It was definitely very high and flying at a constant velocity on a flat trajectory. I asked my uncle if he had binoculars. He went inside and grabbed a pair while I continued watching it.

I pointed out the object to my aunt and 8 year-old son, too. None of us knew what it was. The object continued moving southward and was soon nearly too small to see.

When my uncle returned with the binoculars I was only able to find the object in my sight once before losing it again. The sun was lowering and bright enough to where I needed to block it with my hand. It made finding the object at a distance challenging.

The object then became too faint at such a distance and I lost it. The whole event must've lasted approximately 10 or so minutes. Maybe 15.

A review of the National Weather service showed that at 7:53pm in that vicinity the wind direction was NNE and velocity of the wind was 5mph.

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2 of my son's and 2 friends while at Baker Middle School playing football when noticed something towards Fern Hill elementary school flying low and very slow, When it got by the tree it disappeared.

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Tacoma red lights in sky. Multiple bright red/orange objects flying towards my position (south direction), and then turn east as if circling. Objects would appear to be at tree top level as they appeared and when they turned would gain altitude and disapear.

This went on for about 10 minutes all in different formations, some very close to each other.

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Flaming silent object near joint military base JBLM in south Tacoma. Seen out a north facing window. Appeared as a large, balled up sheet of paper on fire, and was moving rapidly south, just east of I-5.

I ran outside and saw it continue southward silently at about sixty mph. It neither slowed down, nor speed up. It traveled straight and level and, as I wrote before, was completely silent.

The weird thing-as though that wasn't weird enough-was that the orange glow and subdued flames were not streaming behind it. The flames/glow were as if it was actually a stationary object even though it was traveling through the air (as I wrote) at about sixty mph. It soon disappeared behind a tall stand of firs, where I lost track of it.