State Report
UFO Sightings in Washington
11,520 sightings on record from 1880 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
11,520
Share of US total
5.37%
Peak year
2012
811 reports
Top shape
Light
2,322 reports
Years active
143
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-18 | Kelso | disk | 30 seconds | It was a black disc and it was moving fast around500 feet in the air. |
| 2023-12-17 | Lynnwood | triangle | 30 seconds | Seen a huge black boomerang shaped craft flying low from east to west , very little sound |
| 2023-12-16 | Tacoma | orb | 5 seconds | 5 or 6 linked orbs descending |
| 2023-12-07 | Gig Harbor | changing | assuming 24 hours | We spotted a bright blinking object in the sky, it did not appear to be moving but was chain thing colors and pulsating... |
| 2023-11-27 | Brinnon | light | 7 minutes | Three lights, stacked atop one another, white on top, then a slightly larger orange one, then another white, roughly 100... |
| 2023-11-26 | Battle Ground | light | 5-7 minutes over the past | On different occasions over the past week. 8-15 of the same lights. Some close together I groups, some spread apart. One... |
| 2023-11-25 | Friday Harbor | circle | 1 sec | I was laying down on the ground and I saw what looked like a star and then it flashed and then it was gone. |
| 2023-11-25 | Brinnon | disk | Momentary,high-speed pass | Taking picture of dog, raising camera to zoom object low high speed pass pushed shutter repeatedly got one image and was... |
| 2023-11-24 | Battle Ground | triangle | 5-10 min | Extremely shiny object in the sky |
| 2023-11-23 | Puyallup | light | Ongoing since 11:37pm | Dazzling multicolored object |
| 2023-11-23 | Buckley | light | About 3 minutes | Saw slow moving red light with a bright white center which traveled from the northeast to southwest then disappeared... |
| 2023-11-18 | Blaine | orb | Maybe three minutes | Round light that changed to a small blinking light after rising up into the sky. |
| 2023-11-16 | Burbank | rectangle | 45 seconds | Large hovering craft, silently floated away when I stopped my car, at night with lights |
| 2023-11-13 | Ione | light | 4 min probably longer | 3 stationary white out of focus very bright lights in a line east to west about 6 degrees apart (the width of fingers) |
| 2023-11-11 | Seattle | unknown | Green blue light came in | Woke up Saturday night. Pain was gone in my hip and buzzing sound above home. Strange green blue scanning light went... |
| 2023-11-09 | Anacortes | circle | 10+ minutes | Spotted 5, stationary, glowing objects over Skagit Valley |
| 2023-11-08 | Longview | chevron | approx. 45 seconds | silent as in no air moving at low speed moderate altitude |
| 2023-11-08 | Everett | light | More than 2 minutes | Three bright white lights in a non-equilateral triangle formation. Close enough together and large enough to not be... |
| 2023-11-08 | Seattle | formation | 15 minutes | Saw many lights in the sky over the freeway |
| 2023-10-31 | Port Angeles | orb | 30seonds give or take | 7 or so bright orbs traveling in formation and as they got to the big dipper changed into V-shape and disappeared. |