UFO sightings in Seattle, Washington
There are 41 civilian UFO sighting reports from Seattle, Washington in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1988 to 2011. That is 17% of the 243 reports from Washington, more than any other place in the state. The busiest year was 2000, with 7 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (10), sphere (6) and triangle (3).
Sighting reports from Seattle
All 41 reports, newest first.
- 25 Oct 2011 · 23:00Orb· 1 min
Star-like light with humanly incapable flight pattern
Show on map - 22 Oct 2011 · 15:00Other· 3 min
Unfathomable beauty in the sky in the form of something which I cannot explain
Show on map - 21 Oct 2011 · 06:59Other· 2 min
Stationary object, Very brightlights, swooped to the NW into a fog bank.
Show on map - 19 Oct 2010 · 18:30Orb· 5 s
A moment later I looked up again and saw two lights (only slightly smaller and less bright than the planet) below Jupiter.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2009 · 03:30Other· 40 min
Two craft hovering in the sky above north seattle
Show on map - 15 Oct 2009 · 22:00Orb· 5 min
A flying light in Seattle to the west of the aurora bridge
Show on map - 25 Oct 2008 · 07:30Orb· 1 min
Star like light moving in a zig zag pattern
Show on map - 10 Oct 2008 · 20:00Orb· 3 min
Around 8:00 pm? I Went out side and looked up at the stars and I saw a light which I thought was a small faded star until it started t
Show on map - 26 Oct 2007 · 18:55Formation· 5 s
Bright object falling from sky towards Seattle airport 10/26/07
Show on map - 13 Oct 2007 · 23:00Other· 2 h
Distant dancing light in the sky southeast of Seattle for prolonged time
Show on map - 11 Oct 2007 · 19:50Triangle· 10 s
I saw two orange colored lights, close together but moving independently across the sky, at high rate of speed. Then they disappeared.
Show on map - 21 Oct 2006 · 07:10Triangle· 30 s
Gigantic triangle flys over Seatac and makes hard left turn.
Show on map - 1 Oct 2006 · 21:00Orb· 20 s
A VERY bright and transluscent light that seemed to glow more than create a shape hovered above Lake Washington (so it seemed) in the W
Show on map - 1 Oct 2006 · 20:34Other· 12 s
Very large yellow teardrop-shaped disk or meteor dropping several or many miles East of Seattle, Washington - watched for 12-14 seconds
Show on map - 15 Oct 2005 · 22:00Cigar· 2 min
Cylindrical object hovering past my car at close range
Show on map - 10 Oct 2005 · 07:40Other· 1 min
round symetrical with roundish flat bottom shiny white colored low flying bigger than a plane.
Show on map - 24 Oct 2004 · 17:00Cigar· 5 min
A bending black rod hovering over First Hill!
Show on map - 23 Oct 2003 · 21:40Sphere· 10 s
A bright white circular object moving quickly from north to south.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2003 · 21:18Other· 12 s
It was a red and green coneshaped object that flashed briefly across the night sky.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2003 · 21:00Other· 3 s
"W" shaped meteor burns up above Seattle
Show on map - 17 Oct 2002 · 19:13Other· 3 s
Peculiar, shapeless object with several distinct lights seen streaking over Greenlake Park in Seattle.
Show on map - 15 Oct 2002 · 07:30Rectangle· 2 min
Dark rectangle, almost a cube; no lights, no sound, no wings, no reflective surface, seen in daylight
Show on map - 10 Oct 2002 · 06:00Sphere· 2 min
Light falls from sky
Show on map - 1 Oct 2002 · 05:43Other· 2 s
I saw a green object above Seattle, at about 5:45 AM on 10/1, occuring at the time of a northern lights display.
Show on map - 1 Oct 2002 · 05:42Other· 3 s
Initially a comet in appearance, but speed was too slow.
Show on map - 1 Oct 2002 · 05:35Other· 1 s
On the morning of 10/01/02 I was driving to work on HI5 in Seattle Wa. and I was south bound by the old Rainier Brewery and saw a brigh
Show on map - 15 Oct 2001 · 22:00Orb· 5 s
green fireball ocross nite sky
Show on map - 15 Oct 2001 · 20:22Sphere· 5 s
i saw a large flaming blue sphere west of seattle
Show on map - 1 Oct 2001 · 01:05Other· 1 s
just a meteor sighting...
Show on map - 27 Oct 2000 · 10:30Disc· 30 s
Shiny gold/black large balloon like object travelling up Puget Sound WA w/ consistent altitude
Show on map - 25 Oct 2000 · 20:30Triangle· 45 min
Sparkling contrails in triangle pattern.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2000 · 22:00Disc· 3 s
Anybody else see another green light in Seattle?
Show on map - 23 Oct 2000 · 21:55Sphere· 2 s
blue ball streaks across seattle skyline heading west in under 2 seconds
Show on map - 23 Oct 2000 · 21:45Orb· 3 s
Very clear night. I saw what I thought was a largish shooting star falling south to north , as it decended from a little under the airp
Show on map - 18 Oct 2000 · 20:45Sphere· 15 s
If there are a such of things as green meteors, then there must be little green leprechauns driving them.
Show on map - 10 Oct 2000 · 21:30Other· 10 s
Dark object in the shape of a (4) after dusk in West Seattle
Show on map - 20 Oct 1999 · 01:30Sphere· 5 min
11/20/99 1:30am purple glowing sphere moves in a straight line across a clear starry quarter moon night.
Show on map - 15 Oct 1999 · 20:15Boomerang· 1 min
4 lights in chevron-shape, crossed north t south on clear night sky. Lost sight of, then shape came back south to north, very fast.
Show on map - 26 Oct 1998 · 18:15Orb· 3 s
FIREBALL CAME STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THE SKY, IT HAD A TAIL GOING STRAIGHT UP LASTED 2 TO 3 SECONDS AND DISAPPEARED.
Show on map - 23 Oct 1998 · 18:04Orb· 1 s
While driving north on I-5 at approximately NE 65th and looking to the northwest towards Greenlake, I saw an electric blue fireball tha
Show on map - 10 Oct 1988 · 22:45Other· 2 s
Two adult witnesses are stunned by the sound of an object that streaks above the home they are in.
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.