UFO Sightings in Washington
6,791 UFO sightings reported in Washington since 1946, peaking in 2012 (427 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 6,791
- Span
- 1946–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (427 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2022 · peak 2012 (427 reports)
Top cities in Washington
Seattle
1947–2022 · peak 2012 (43 reports)
Spokane
1971–2022 · peak 2020 (20 reports)
Vancouver
1961–2021 · peak 2012 (22 reports)
Tacoma
1947–2022 · peak 1995 (15 reports)
Everett
1976–2022 · peak 2013 (15 reports)
Bellingham
1966–2022 · peak 2013 (13 reports)
Yakima
1960–2021 · peak 2011 (18 reports)
Olympia
1973–2021 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Bremerton
1971–2021 · peak 2007 (14 reports)
Auburn
1952–2021 · peak 2009 (10 reports)
Bellevue
1958–2021 · peak 2005 (8 reports)
Renton
1966–2020 · peak 2012 (8 reports)
Puyallup
1954–2020 · peak 2015 (8 reports)
Edmonds
1992–2022 · peak 2020 (19 reports)
Kent
1966–2021 · peak 2009 (7 reports)
Wenatchee
1953–2021 · peak 2004 (7 reports)
Kennewick
1965–2021 · peak 2011 (7 reports)
Port Angeles
1995–2022 · peak 2020 (10 reports)
Kirkland
1973–2021 · peak 2004 (8 reports)
Mountlake Terrace
1976–2022 · peak 2019 (24 reports)
Hoquiam · WA, USA
ufo hoved long time
Seattle · WA, USA
4 "non-flashing" red lights in a diamond formation hovering above the Space Needle in Seattle-1971. ((NUFORC Note: Pilot report. PD))
Molson · WA, USA
As a boy retrieving milk alone at a local farm near Molson, Washington, in May 1971, a witness looked up and glimpsed a circular object for about two seconds.
Lynnwood · WA, USA
Life's storys the way i kinda remember it.
Electric City · WA, USA
Three Egg shaped objects flew thru the Coulee. There was a large one and two small objects flying together.. They all flashed colors of
Kent · WA, USA
We saw a saucer silently pass over our panicking horses and then our barn. Had alternate flashing lights a round it, blue and green
Issaquah · WA, USA
Issaquah, WA sighting - summer 1969
Burlington · WA, USA
I was returning home after seeing my girl friend, trveling along a rural road between two corn fields a creature apprximatly 3 feet tal
Kent · WA, USA
not remembering past getting out of the car. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Oroville · WA, USA
A witness in Oroville, Washington reported a three-to-four-foot, gunmetal-colored cross-shaped object that produced a loud noise and appeared to shake their home in March 1969, over two minutes.
Odessa · WA, USA
A witness in Odessa, Washington reported a brilliant metallic disk-shaped object with a ring of red and blue lights around its base in March 1969, observed for about ten minutes.
Kent · WA, USA
At daybreak, object (with recessed light in nose, and soundless) passed by us in the low clouds. It was barely getting light enough to
Walla Walla · WA, USA
black objects oveer walla walla
Lake Dorothy (Central Cascade Mtns.) · WA, USA
Witnesses near Lake Dorothy in the Washington Cascades reported three to four bright disk-shaped objects hovering over power lines and illuminating the lake in August 1968, over eight minutes.
Seattle · WA, USA
A witness in Seattle, Washington reported a stationary, silent circular object with intensely bright, pure-colored lights in July 1968, observed for about ten minutes.
Washougal · WA, USA
A witness in Washougal, Washington reported a bright white, cylinder-shaped light appearing silently above a rooftop on two occasions in the late 1960s, each lasting only a few seconds.
Renton · WA, USA
A witness in Renton, Washington reported a huge orange ball over Lake Hills that appeared to change into a triangular shape near Boeing Field before disappearing, during a five-to-ten-minute sighting.
Burien/Vancouver · WA, USA
2 differnt people 47 years later aggreing meeting on a game and chat sight seeing the same thing
Walla Walla · WA, USA
The object moved up, down, hovered, then left with extreme speed on a huge trajectory up into space. We followed it on a surveyor's tr
Port Orchard · WA, USA
We were living in Port Orchard, WA, at the time, in the neighborhood of Parkwood. It was the night before Thanksgiving, when my twin an
Blaine · WA, USA
UFO flyover during war games.
Burien · WA, USA
Witnesses in Burien, Washington, reported lights moving at extremely high speed over Puget Sound during a two-minute sighting in August 1967.
Vancouver · WA, USA
When I was in middle school the summer of 1967 my buddy and I were camping in my back yard.Around 1:00 am we decided to take a walk
Tacoma · WA, USA
Witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, reported three oval-shaped objects hovering before flying away at a speed they described as too fast to be man-made, during a three-minute sighting in June 1967.
Sumner · WA, USA
Witnesses in Sumner, Washington, reported five objects in formation hovering close to the ground and shining lights, during a sighting lasting ten to fifteen minutes in June 1967.