Washington UFO Sightings
02-04-1908 Tacoma, WA
A remarkable multi-colored light was observed by a conductor and many passengers of a train near Tacoma's Fifteenth Street St. Later the same week, many multi-colored shapes were seen in the sky above Washington.
12-??-1909 Worcester, WA
Moving lights in the sky were observed throughout this corner of Washington.
??-1945 Washington Coast
Radioman Crawford, aboard the USS Delarof, observed a huge, dark metallic UFO emerge from the sea and circle the ship. His fellow crew members also saw the craft. It disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
06-21-1947 Maury Island, WA
Mr. Harold A. Dahl, a fisherman from Tacoma, took three black and white photographs of six donut shaped objects in flight overhead. He noted his estimate specification on the face of the photographs, which were taken by one of the official investigators in this case and were never returned (believed to be one of the government men). One of the machines seemed to be disabled. The craft, an estimated 2000ft above, were about 100ft in diameter with a 25ft hole in the center of the ships. "Portholes" six feet in diameter were space evenly around the outside rim, and there were dark circular "windows" around the inside of the hole and the bottom. The photos were badly over-exposed and were covered all over with dark specks.
06-24-1947 Mt. Rainier, WA
Nine silver saucers, flying over Mt. Rainier, were observed by Kenneth Arnold as he flew his single-engine plane over Washington.
07-04-1947 Seattle, WA
US Navy CPO Frank Rayman photographed a white round object in the sky in the late afternoon.
07-19-1986 MONROE, WA
DATE: 19 JULY 1986 TIME: 2220 HOURS DURATION: ONE TENTH SECOND WITNESSES: TWO SOURCE: UFO INFORMATION SERVICE
Two witnesses, Dorothy and Larry Wood, observed a green round dot with a short green tail going parallel to the sky and traveling very very fast, and it was observed about one tenth of a second. The object was very high in the sky going west to east about five miles west of Monroe, Washington at10:20 pm. Larry Wood, once in the Air Force, is normally very skeptical, however he did not believe the object to be a meteor or anything known.
At 9:45 P.M. the UFO Information Service in Seattle Washington received a report of a UFO sighting that took place at Gig horbor, which is in the State of Wash. Three Witnesses reported observing a UFO Unidentified Flying Object. They Stated that they first noticed the object hovering over some houses. The witnesses said the ufo or object was oval shaped and said the color of the object was blue. They stated when the ufo letf the area it went straight up and out of sight from them. They also stated that there was "no sequel to any movement that the object made".
Narrative: I marked the date down on the calendar. On midnight of the 27th (or Thursday morning, January 28th) I was heading home down my driveway when I saw these 4 lights off to the right of Ika Island. There was 3 orange lights and a red light. I saw the lights to the right of the island, over the mouth of the [North Fork of the] Skagit River [near the town of La Conner, Washington]. I thought, well, the Indians fish in the river for Steelhead--gillnetting--and I thought, it must be somebody was missing and the Navy was out looking for them in a helicopter. So I hopped out of the car and ran in the house and grabbed my binoculars. I could see it was no helicopter and I could have heard it if it was because the next night one came by, and I could hear it from here to there. So then I put the spotting scope [45x] on it and I couldn't see very good with it because it was very fuzzy. I should have probably turned it down [it was set on the highest power], but I didn't think about it, you know. So I just grabbed my binoculars and started looking and I thought, well, maybe there are some houses there I don't know about, but I knew there were no houses in that direction. I watched for 10-15 minutes. The orange lights got brighter and dimmer while the red light stayed pretty much the same. I thought, "well, that sure is odd", and I kept trying to figure it out. I could also see a little bit of white light out of the bottom of it, like it was shining [a beam of light] down. I sat here watching the lights and it never did move [the witness had the impression that all of the lights were part of the same object]. All of a sudden a "strobe light" flashed on top of the thing. Five to ten seconds later a single light appeared to the left. Off to the left, where the little hill is in there, up about half as high as Ika Island. The light "just appeared". I didn't see it go over there, it just appeared there. It started getting brighter and dimmer; it got real bright and turned perfectly round, just like a fish egg or a balloon, and had a glow, a little halo all the way around it. Then the light got dimmer and started toward the ground and became more disk shaped as it went down [note: the object could have changed its orientation to the witness to "edge on" or the change in shape could have been the result of atmospheric conditions]. It went down to the ground. I watched for another 5-10 minutes, when two lights appeared, over the land, at about the same height in the sky, three-quarters the height of Ika Island. Both lights turned perfectly round like an orange ball, with halos, then they started down to the ground becoming disk shaped about half way down to the ground. One went clear to the ground, the other I could see the light of in the treetops of a bushy area. So they both disappeared from view. Meanwhile that big thing always stayed there on the right with the three orange lights and one red light on it. Another ten minutes or so went by, while these lights on the one remaining object continued getting brighter and dimmer. A strobe light flashed again, and within 20-30 seconds started getting very bright--like the sun. I could see the right end of the object illuminated by the light, and it looked just like that [sketch, which shows half of a small oval on top of half of a larger oval]. The light glowed for maybe 30-40 seconds, and went out. As the light got dimmer, there was a dull after-glow in the area, like the after-glow you get from a TV screen after you turn off the set. I sat for another half hour watching it. By this time it was getting to be about 1:50 a.m. and the dull-glowing light was still there but it wasn't doing anything so I decided to go to bed. I set the alarm to go off at 3:00 a.m. to check on it. I woke up at 2:45 a.m. before the alarm went off and looked, and it was gone. I had the feeling that when the strobe light went off and five seconds later when the other two lights appeared that something came out of that big th ing and went over there. Maybe when the strobe light flashed one more time they came off the ground and went back in it or something. I saw 3 objects total, and the one on the right was much bigger than the two on the left. They appeared to be round balls as big as hot-air balloons, looking through the binoculars. The distance across [from Whidbey Island] to there is one and a half to two miles to that flat area over the river there. I knew there shouldn't be any houses there. The next thing I thought was that maybe there was a fire up on the foothills. When I got up the next morning the first thing I did was use the spotting scope to look all over that hillside and there hadn't been anything burning over there. So I called MacIndoe because I'd read the newspaper article about his sighting and that's what he said he saw--a round orange ball, so what I saw must have been the same deal. I've got an airplane up in Anacortes. I'm a private pilot. Three to four days later I flew my plane from Anacortes on a be aring from my home right over the spot. There are a few little cabins there by the river and a couple of farms back in there behind La Conner. Other than that there is nothing in there.
While crossing the street on foot from a corner convenience store a man and a woman observed a huge, metallic spherical-shaped object surrounded by a corona of bright blue light over the West Seattle golf course. They described the object as "as wide as a football field is long" (300 feet). They heard a humming sound, and estimated the altitude to be only 300 yards above the golf course. They reported being nearly knocked down by a car because they were standing there in the middle of the street "kind of mesmerized" by the sight of such a strange object so close to the ground in a populated area. The driver of the car who stopped got out and also watched the object. Together they watched the object for a period of approximately 30-40 seconds. It moved very quickly right, then left--in a zig-zag fashion as it gained altitude--and then departed very quickly into the upper atmosphere. The woman is in her thirties and works as a transit operator for the regional transit system. The man, her boyfriend, is in his forties. After the sighting they discussed what they had seen with the other witness. The other witness suggested that they not report it to anyone and drove off without giving his name.
5/06/1989 FERNDALE, WA. 10:00PM
Five witnesses Witnesses saw lite form low in sky which appeared to be stationary. As they watched, a second form joined the first then one moved away at a high rate of speed. The second form descended toward the ground then moved toward the witnesses. It passed overhead at rooftop level. It was described as "really huge" and long & wide and moving without sound. It appeared to land in an open field then vanished. Dur. 15 min.