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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).

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Sighting reports from Seattle

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  1. 25 Oct 2011 · 23:00Orb· 1 min

    Star-like light with humanly incapable flight pattern

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  2. 22 Oct 2011 · 15:00Other· 3 min

    Unfathomable beauty in the sky in the form of something which I cannot explain

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  3. 21 Oct 2011 · 06:59Other· 2 min

    Stationary object, Very brightlights, swooped to the NW into a fog bank.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 26 Oct 2009 · 03:30Other· 40 min

    Two craft hovering in the sky above north seattle

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  6. 15 Oct 2009 · 22:00Orb· 5 min

    A flying light in Seattle to the west of the aurora bridge

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  7. 25 Oct 2008 · 07:30Orb· 1 min

    Star like light moving in a zig zag pattern

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  8. 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

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  9. 26 Oct 2007 · 18:55Formation· 5 s

    Bright object falling from sky towards Seattle airport 10/26/07

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  10. 13 Oct 2007 · 23:00Other· 2 h

    Distant dancing light in the sky southeast of Seattle for prolonged time

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  11. 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.

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  12. 21 Oct 2006 · 07:10Triangle· 30 s

    Gigantic triangle flys over Seatac and makes hard left turn.

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  13. 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

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  14. 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

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  15. 15 Oct 2005 · 22:00Cigar· 2 min

    Cylindrical object hovering past my car at close range

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  16. 10 Oct 2005 · 07:40Other· 1 min

    round symetrical with roundish flat bottom shiny white colored low flying bigger than a plane.

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  17. 24 Oct 2004 · 17:00Cigar· 5 min

    A bending black rod hovering over First Hill!

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  18. 23 Oct 2003 · 21:40Sphere· 10 s

    A bright white circular object moving quickly from north to south.

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  19. 23 Oct 2003 · 21:18Other· 12 s

    It was a red and green coneshaped object that flashed briefly across the night sky.

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  20. 23 Oct 2003 · 21:00Other· 3 s

    "W" shaped meteor burns up above Seattle

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  21. 17 Oct 2002 · 19:13Other· 3 s

    Peculiar, shapeless object with several distinct lights seen streaking over Greenlake Park in Seattle.

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  22. 15 Oct 2002 · 07:30Rectangle· 2 min

    Dark rectangle, almost a cube; no lights, no sound, no wings, no reflective surface, seen in daylight

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  23. 10 Oct 2002 · 06:00Sphere· 2 min

    Light falls from sky

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  24. 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.

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  25. 1 Oct 2002 · 05:42Other· 3 s

    Initially a comet in appearance, but speed was too slow.

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  26. 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

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  27. 15 Oct 2001 · 22:00Orb· 5 s

    green fireball ocross nite sky

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  28. 15 Oct 2001 · 20:22Sphere· 5 s

    i saw a large flaming blue sphere west of seattle

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  29. 1 Oct 2001 · 01:05Other· 1 s

    just a meteor sighting...

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  30. 27 Oct 2000 · 10:30Disc· 30 s

    Shiny gold/black large balloon like object travelling up Puget Sound WA w/ consistent altitude

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  31. 25 Oct 2000 · 20:30Triangle· 45 min

    Sparkling contrails in triangle pattern.

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  32. 23 Oct 2000 · 22:00Disc· 3 s

    Anybody else see another green light in Seattle?

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  33. 23 Oct 2000 · 21:55Sphere· 2 s

    blue ball streaks across seattle skyline heading west in under 2 seconds

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  34. 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

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  35. 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.

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  36. 10 Oct 2000 · 21:30Other· 10 s

    Dark object in the shape of a (4) after dusk in West Seattle

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  37. 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.

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  38. 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.

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  39. 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.

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  40. 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

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  41. 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.