UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Ellensburg, WA, USA

3 spheres circling around then moving to the west. ((NUFORC Note: Daylight sighting. Not advertising lights. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-07-13
Where
Ellensburg, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
46.997, -120.548 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-ellensburg-wa-2013-e61443
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In context

  • One of 24 documented reports from Ellensburg, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 321 sightings in 2013.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

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