ABERDEEN
11/14/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #45
BELLEVUE
2/9/94
(RDUP5/5/96)
A UFO was seen in Redmond, Woodinville, Bellevue and Granite Falls,
Washington and also over Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. The UFO was
described as "a long, slender, black, tubular-shaped object with at least
four lights on the side. It streaked in all directions, dipped its nose
down and disappeared behind the horizon of the Olympic Mountains" on the
other side of the sound, somewhere west of Port Angeles.
BELLINGHAM
December 8, 2002
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BREMERTON
June 12, 2002
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BRINNON
February 10, 2003
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BUCKLEY
October 24, 2001
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CENTRALIA
11/14/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #45
EVERETT
January 21, 2003
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FAIRCHILD AFB
1/20/52
(NICAP)
Two master segeants (intelligence specialists), reported a klarge, bluish-white spherical object with a long blue tail which flew below a solid overcast.
FERNDALE
September 3, 2002
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GEORGE
8/9/96
(RDUP8/18/96)
A crowd of music fans attended an outdoor concert put on by KUBE Radio at
"the Gorge," a narrow canyon north of Interstate Highway 90 and just
south of the Frenchman Hills. Sitting in the crowd were Mr. Z, a
41-year-old man, his 14-year-old daughter and two women in their middle
20s.
At 9:40 p.m., Mr. Z looked up and saw "what looked like an orange ball in the sky. It was slightly fuzzy and appeared to be still," he said. "It's kind of hard to say what the distance was, but it looked to be quarter (U.S. 25 cent piece) size in the northern sky. I realize that it was probably much bigger than that, but I would say it was at least 20 miles away, if not more. As I said, distance was hard to tell. The sky was absolutely clear; the stars were clearly visible, and we did see several meteorites also."
"When we first saw the object, it was 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon, north of the Big Dipper," Mr. Z reported. "It stood still for about twenty seconds, then started to move away from us to the north, then started to move slowly to the east in a straight line. Again, I am not sure of the distance, but it stopped again after about fifteen seconds of movement, and then started to move away from us to the north, getting smaller until it disappeared from view. That took about ten to fifteen seconds. There was no sound to the object that we were aware of, or any smoke, flashing lights, etc. It was just a solid fuzzy orange glow. In fact, when it was first spotted, one of the gals thought it was Jupiter. I myself was not sure, except for the fact that I'd never seen a planet look quite that big. Oh, also to let you know that all of us were very sober at the time. I mention this because it was at an outdoor concert."
GIG HARBOR
11/14/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #45
GLENOMA
June 9, 2002
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GRANITE FALLS
2/9/94
(RDUP5/5/96)
A UFO was seen in Redmond, Woodinville, Bellevue and Granite Falls,
Washington and also over Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. The UFO was
described as "a long, slender, black, tubular-shaped object with at least
four lights on the side. It streaked in all directions, dipped its nose
down and disappeared behind the horizon of the Olympic Mountains" on the
other side of the sound, somewhere west of Port Angeles.
GRANITE FALLS
January 10, 2002
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INGLEWOOD
2/7/97
(RDUP2/16/97)
A man was returning to his apartment house around 10:30 p.m. when he
spotted "a bright yellow light" hovering over the neighborhood. The
unknown object reportedly "hovered over the town for at least 45 minutes,"
and its presence set off "alarms and security lights" in the building.
"They apparently had trouble turning them off until the light in the sky
had left."
KELSO
August 28, 2002
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KENNEWICK
January 1st, 2002
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LAKE CHELAN
7/28/64
(Magonia)
A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as trustworthy, were at
work in a field when they saw an intense light, cone-shaped, emitted from
the ground. A similar light was observed in the sky when the one on the
ground was turned off, then the reverse took place. A round,
aluminum-looking object, about 10 meters in diameter,with one red and one
white light, then appeared and descended to ground level with a strong
whistling sound similar to a small jet. apiercing and high-pitched voices
similar to those of children playing were heard. After 40 minutes the
craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft aflying at low altitude
circled its position. On July 31 and August 1, the densely wooded area was
explored by helicopter and on foot by Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force
officer, but nothing was found.
LAKE STEVENS
10/21/99
UFO Roundup vol 4 #29
LARSON AFB
1/8/53
(McDonald)(Bluebook)
At dawn (0715 PST):
"Over sixty varied military and civilian sources observed one green disc-shaped object. The observations continued for fifteen minutes during which time the object moved in a southwesterly direction while bobbing vertically and going sideways. There was no sound. An F-94 aircraft was scrambled but a thirty minute search of the area produced negative intercept results."
The official summary also notes that the:
"winds were generally from 240 degrees below an overcast at 12,000 ft. Thus the object would appear to move against the wind since it must have been below the clouds. there was no air traffic reported in the area." No radar sites in the area had unusual returns or activity, according to the same report.
LONGVIEW
7/3/49
(McDonald)
This incident was "observed by 150 other people at an Air Show", in
addition to the reporting witness, Moulton B. Taylor. I have interviewed
Mr. Taylor and have obtained strong recommendations of his reliability
from a former superior officer, Adm. D. S. Fahrney, under whom Taylor
served in Naval guided missiles work prior to the incident. Taylor is an
aeronautical engineer, and was airport manager at Longview, in charge of
an air show that was to be held on the afternoon of 7/3/49, the day of the
incident in question. A skywriting Stearman was at 10,000 ft at 10:40
a.m., laying down "Air Show Today", and hence holding the attention of a
number of the personnel already at the airport, when the first of three
unidentified objects flew over at high altitude. Alerted by one of the
persons who first spotted the object coming from the northwest, Taylor got
on the public address system and announced to all persons at hand that
they should look up to see the odd object. Many had binoculars, and among
the over 150 persons present were police officers, city officials and a
number of Longview's leading citizens, Taylor emphasized. The object was
observed by a number of experienced pilots; and, according to official
file summaries, all agreed that the object was shaped much like a discus.
It seemed to have metallic luster and oscillated periodically as it
crossed the sky from northwest to southeast until lost in mill-smoke.
Taylor described the motion as "a sculling or falling-leaf motion rather
than a movement through the axis of the disc." Its angular size he
estimated as about that of a pinhead at arm's length, or about that of a
DC-3 at 30,000 ft, both of which come out to be near 10 minutes of arc
(one-third of moon's diameter).
The crowd's attention to events in the sky did not lapse when the first object was lost from view, and, about nine minutes later, someone spotted a second object, whereupon the event was again announced via the public address system. Still a third object was brought to the attention of the crowd in the same manner at 11:25. The second object came out of the north, the third came from almost due west. In the third case, someone thought of timing the oscillation frequency (all three exhibited the same unconventional oscillation, with sun-glint perceptible in certain of the instances of tipping, Taylor mentioned). The oscillation frequency was clocked at 48 per minute. Taylor, in his statement submitted to official investigators, said:
"My experience in radio control of pilotless aircraft and guided missiles for the Navy at NAMU during the war, and over 20 years of aircraft study, does not permit my identification of the objects which were seen. They definitely were _not_ balloons, birds, common aircraft, parachutes, stars, meteors, paper, clouds, or other common objects. They moved in a regular motion either straight or in curved lines. They were all at approximately the same altitude, but moved on different courses as indicated on the sketch. The oscillations wee clearly visible and timed on the 3rd sighting..."
LYNDEN
1/12/65
(UFO Encyclopedia)(Magonia)
A Department of Justice Inspector named Robert E. Kerringer was on patrol
just after midnight , when suddenly a bright glow lit up the area
surrounding his vehicle. As Kerringer began to slow down, an enormous
object swooped right over his car. It was about thirty feet wide and
apparently round, but the glare prevented him from seeing any details. It
stopped just above the road some fifty feet from him, and it became
apparent that he could not avoid hitting the object. . At the last ,inute,
however, the object shot up out of the way. Kerringer stopped the car,
jumped out, and aimed his .357 magnum pistol at it but did not fire.
For about three minutes the object hovered above him, and Kerringer got a strong feeling of being watched. He reached into his car for the radio microphone to call his headquarters, and immediately the object began to move. Suddenly it climbed faster than any jet and disappeared into the clouds.
Other Department of Justice investigators corroborated the sighting and Blaine Air Force Base tracked it on radar.
LYNNWOOD
January 20, 2003
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MABTON
June 26, 2002
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MAKILTEO
7/16/00
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MARYSVILLE
November 2, 2002
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MATTAWAN
August 28, 2002
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MCCHORD AFB
6/17/52
(Bluebook)
Between 7:30 and 10:20 p.m. Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five
large silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for
about 15 minutes.
MCCHORD AFB
7/28/52
(Bluebook)
2:15 a.m. Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th AC&W
Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a dime at arms'
length, flew very fast, straight and level.
MILTON
February 11, 2002
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MOSES LAKE
5/1/52
(Bluebook)
5:32 a.m. Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan and
Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for 1.5
minutes.
ODESSA
12/10/52
(McDonald)
Two airmen in an F-94 "made visual and radar contact with a large, round
white object larger than any known type of aircraft" near 1915 PST on
12/10/52 near Odessa. The radar operator in the F-94 had airborne radar
contact with the object for 15 minutes, and during that same interval,
ground radar was also tracking it. The summary states that "the object
appeared to be level with the intercepting F-94 at 26,000 to 27,000 ft,"
and it is pointed out that "a dim reddish-white light came from the object
as it hovered, reversed direction almost instantaneously and then
disappeared." It is stated that the skies were clear above 3000 ft. The
official evaluation of this incident is "Possible Balloon", although the
report notes that no upper-air research balloon was known to be in the
area on this date. The principal basis for calling it a balloon was the
observers' description of "large, round and white and extremely large",
and it was remarked that the instrument package on some balloon flights is
capable of yielding a radar return.
OLYMPIA
February 9, 2002
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ORTING
4/59
(UFO Encyclopedia)
An Air Force C-118 transport plane taking off from McChord Air Force Base
hit an object in flight. The pilot radioed back, "We have hit something -
or something has hit us," and stated he would attempt to return to McChord
AFB. He failed, however, and the plane crashed, killing him and his three
man crew.
Chief of Police Fred Emard of Orting confirmed reports of glowing objects following the plane shortly before the incident, suggesting a relationship between the sightings and the eventual fate of the aircraft. (Note - There must have been an official Air Force investigation into this crash. This report begs for more investigation.)
PASCO
July, 1948
(NICAP)
A private pilot saw a disc diving and climbing away at high speed.
PORT ANGELES
December 29, 2001
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PORT ORCHARD
November 4, 2002
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PUYALLUP
June 11, 2001
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REDMOND
2/9/94
(RDUP5/5/96)
A UFO was seen in Redmond, Woodinville, Bellevue and Granite Falls,
Washington and also over Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. The UFO was
described as "a long, slender, black, tubular-shaped object with at least
four lights on the side. It streaked in all directions, dipped its nose
down and disappeared behind the horizon of the Olympic Mountains" on the
other side of the sound, somewhere west of Port Angeles.
RENTON
November 20, 2002
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RIDGEFIELD
January 14, 2003
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ROSALIA
2/6/53
(McDonald)
A B-36, bound for Spokane was over Rosalia, Wash., at 1:13 a.m. when,
"the pilot ... sighted a round white light below him, circling and rising
at a speed estimated at 150 to 200 knots as it proceeded on a southeast
course."
Then the B-36:
"made a sharp descending turn toward the light, which was in view for a period of three to five minutes."
The light was blinking, and Keyhoe mentions that the blink-interval was estimated at about 2 seconds.
SALMON LA SA
August 10, 2001
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SEATTLE
7/4/47
(NICAP)
A coast guard yeoman took a photo of a UFO, a circular object that moved against the wind. The photo shows a round dot of light.
SEATTLE
10/8/57
(Bluebook)
9:17 a.m. Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white
objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently
banking during 25-30 seconds.
SEATTLE
June 10, 2001
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SEATTLE
September, 2001
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SEATTLE
May 5, 2002
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SEATTLE
May 31, 2002
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SEATTLE
August 2, 2002
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SEATTLE
September 18, 2002
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SEATTLE
September 28, 2002
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SEATTLE
December 15, 2002
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SEATTLE
February 1, 2003
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SEATTLE
February 11, 2003
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SHELTON
June 14, 2001
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SNOHOMISH
January 9, 2003
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SOAP LAKE
6/1/52
(Bluebook)
3+ p.m. Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew straight and
level for 10 minutes.
SPOKANE
6/21/47
(Magonia)
Eight disk-shaped objects, the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000
km per hour. A woman stated that the objects fell with a dead-leaf motion
and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River in
Idaho.
SPOKANE
9/3/50
(Bluebook)
2 p.m. Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor (former
saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs, 20-30' long,
2-6' thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5 minutes.
SPOKANE
6/23/52
(Bluebook)
4:05 p.m. Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round disc
with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7
minutes.
SPOKANE
February 2, 2002
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SPOKANE
May, 2002
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SPOKANE
May, 2002
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SPOKANE
June 16, 2002
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SPOKANE
August, 2002
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SPOKANE
September 14, 2002
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SPOKANE
September 20, 2002
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SPOKANE
October 29, 2002
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SPOKANE
February 1, 2003
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TACOMA
6/21/47
(Casebook)(Magonia)
Harold Dahl and Fred Lee Crissman purportedly saw UFOs over Maury Island
near Tacoma.
TACOMA
11/14/97
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TACOMA
June 9, 2002
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TACOMA
November 27, 2002
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TROUT LAKE
5/24/00
UFO Roundup vol 5 #25
TROUT LAKE
10/13/00
UFO Roundup vol 5 #42
TROUT LAKE
3/19/01
UFO Roundup vol 6 #12
TROUT LAKE
5/9/01
UFO Roundup vol 6 #20
TROUT LAKE
July 19, 2001
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VULCAN MOUNTAIN
August 31, 2002
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WALLA WALLA
6/1/52
(Bluebook)
1 p.m. Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf. One oval
object with a "definite airfoil" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds.
WENATCHEE
7/31/97
UFO Roundup vol 2 #32
WOODINVILLE
2/9/94
(RDUP5/5/96)
A UFO was seen in Redmond, Woodinville, Bellevue and Granite Falls,
Washington and also over Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. The UFO was
described as "a long, slender, black, tubular-shaped object with at least
four lights on the side. It streaked in all directions, dipped its nose
down and disappeared behind the horizon of the Olympic Mountains" on the
other side of the sound, somewhere west of Port Angeles.
YAKIMA
6/24/47
Civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine objects near Mount Rainier.
YAKIMA
3/23/52
(Bluebook)
6:56 and 7 p.m. Witnesses:
pilot and
radar operator of F-94 jet interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball
increased in brightness and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary
both times. Note: Project Blue Book Status Report #7 (May 31, 1952) says
target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90 m.p.h.) at 22,500'
and 25,000' altitude.
YAKIMA INDIAN RESERVATION
Spooklight Site
ZILLAH, YAKIMA COUNTY
June 1, 2002
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