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)
Skamokawa · WA, USA
Huge white lighted UFO Spotted Over The Lower Columbia River.
Kent · WA, USA
It looked like a red meteorite. It was traveling northwest to south east, gaining altitude.
Anacortes · WA, USA
Very bright, greenish, light in the sky. Exhibited non-aircraft behavior.
Raymond · WA, USA
Three bright orange circular shapes that formed into three triangle shapes.
Vancouver · WA, USA
Triangular red object in sky, going in straight line, then disappeared; 7 witnesses.
Quincy · WA, USA
White fireball.
Olympia · WA, USA
White cigar-shaped silent slow moving craft at about 1 mile high and maybe three miles away was moving south, fired two bright flashes
Elk · WA, USA
Fireball heading north in Elk, Washington. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering Chinese 3rd-stage rocket casing. PD))
East Spokane · WA, USA
Large cigar shaped objected seen going S to N at a down angle in east Spokane. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering rocket. PD))
Spokane · WA, USA
Flat shaped white light traveling fairly slow, with a long trail of red and white tail, almost like what u would see from a plane.
Maple Falls · WA, USA
Bright multi-color object. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of the star, Sirius, we suspect. PD))
Maple Falls · WA, USA
Bright multi-color object.
Seattle · WA, USA
1-2 orange fireball objects in the sky.
Sequim · WA, USA
A large, silent, bright orange, hovering flying object, dimmed and brightened its "lights," and then vanished.
Olympia · WA, USA
UFO sighting and possible abduction with time loss and distance teleportation.
Kennewick · WA, USA
Reddish orange triangular pattern of lights.
Westport · WA, USA
Triangular light formation traveling east
Spokane Valley · WA, USA
Four orange lights flying straight up.
Seattle · WA, USA
Lights over SW Seattle.
Bothell · WA, USA
Father and son witness acrobatic orange orb over Bothell, WA.
Friday Harbor · WA, USA
Three orange UFOs sighted over Friday Harbor WA, San Juan Island, Thursday, Jan 15, 2015.
Olympia · WA, USA
My friend and I were on the porch facing NE at around 1 am, when all of a sudden all of the street lamps went out and the sky lit up.
Quincy · WA, USA
Watch giant orb hover above clockim never moving but pulsating different colors for about an hour then faded into mountains.
Puyallup · WA, USA
Very fast moving aircraft leaving contrails at right angles seen over Puyallup, WA. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail against a blue sky. PD))
Vancouver · WA, USA
Two orange orbs viewed over Portland, OR.