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)
Tacoma · WA, USA
Last night about 9:51 pm while sitting out on my balcony I saw a flash of Light (burst of light at first which changed into a straight
Ione · WA, USA
Bright object moves west to east above Jupiter.
Ellensburg · WA, USA
3 orange light with a fog around it and another with a disc shape with the lights white. ((anonymous report))
Washougal · WA, USA
It can slowly through the gorge about eye level with the Cape Horn Lookout. It had four orange light on the top of it, one in each corn
Spokane · WA, USA
((HOAX??)) Two white cigar-shaped craft close together. ((anonymous report))
Federal Way · WA, USA
I saw a strange red light traveling across the sky, it was star like and it dramatically changed directions, hovered and vanished..
Mountlake Terrace · WA, USA
MADAR Node 100
Warm Beach · WA, USA
My sister and I were watching the Perseids meteor shower when we saw a very bright white light flash several times while moving across
Edmonds · WA, USA
Moved Quickly and swiftly.
Camas · WA, USA
Three bright lights, hovering & moving straight up into the night sky and disappear.
Mount Vernon · WA, USA
Very loud triangle craft with lights that don't blink
Quinault · WA, USA
What appeared to be the moon rising over a mountain ridge, but the orb descended both times, never coming completely over the ridge.
Long Beach · WA, USA
Additonal witness to Peter Davenport report of ufo from Long Beach, Wa.
Auburn · WA, USA
Lights in the western sky over Auburn, WA, night after night, not normal aircraft.
Redmond · WA, USA
Light above Redmond, WA, moving rapidy making infinity sign.
Spokane Valley · WA, USA
At approximately 4:15 I was driving north in Spokane Valley. I was at a stop light getting ready to enter I-90 heading west. I saw tw
Silverdale · WA, USA
Circling lights of multiple colors that turned into a solid color of orange then white.
Rochester · WA, USA
Orb of yellowish light that turned blueish green. Disappeared and reappeared 3 times in night sky. ((anonymous report))
Moses Lake · WA, USA
Recently I have noticed a very bright star in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus in the western sky. PD))
Moses Lake · WA, USA
I am born and raised in Moses Lake and I am very used to the planes that fly by and the direction and frequency that they usually fly.
Leavenworth · WA, USA
Single, fireball, orange, low alt, low speed, observing like behavior.
Birdsview · WA, USA
Tent visited by strange lights in the middle of the night on the Skagit River
Seattle · WA, USA
Stationary Object With Extension Emerging Retracting High Above SeaTac or Boeing Field.
Mercer Island · WA, USA
2 moving objects in sky. 30 sec. apart from each other, suddenly stopped, moved around in a pattern and flash off. ((anonymous report))
Vancouver · WA, USA
Solid red light in sw sky above Vancouver, wa.