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)
Bainbridge Island · WA, USA
2 glowing redish orbs spotted NW of island.
Snohomish · WA, USA
This all started on 10 January with 5 strange lights in the sky that changed colors. ((NUFORC Note: Stars?? PD))
Seattle · WA, USA
Cigar shape with wings, the wings were, one on top of the craft the other on the bottom. It looked on fire or all lit up.
Sunnyside · WA, USA
Lights just appeared and no movement the disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Planets in the eastern morning sky? PD))
Hoquiam · WA, USA
7 fireball UFO crafts pass over Hoquiam.
Tacoma · WA, USA
Flaming silent object near joint military base JBLM in south Tacoma.
Orting · WA, USA
The second sighting in my life in the same spot.
Auburn · WA, USA
Green bright light. Fast and slow. Circular patterns. Part force field around it. ((NUFORC Note: Laser advertising light?? PD))
Sea-Tac (to the south of??) · WA, USA
I saw four or five "projectiles" launch minutes apart, straight up in the sky, change trajectory, and shoot north.
Camano Island · WA, USA
I didn't witness this sighting but i found this ufo on google maps and edited it to reveal this detail.
Snohomish · WA, USA
We see a shape with two to three lights that has stayed in the same place for almost an hour now. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star? PD))
Sumner · WA, USA
Green fireball sweeps across the sky horizontally and vanishes
Seattle · WA, USA
Bright white circular light with a long orange tail moving quickly westward across the sky
Kirkland · WA, USA
Fireball, two witnesses, holy crap.
Tacoma · WA, USA
An oval orange and green with three orange beams in the rear object flying very fast in the sky from east to west sideways
Renton · WA, USA
Seen flashing lights like lightning going in bursts of 2 lighting up the sky came from the north, seemed to flash every 45 seconds or s
Bremerton · WA, USA
Iridescent flashing orb over Kitsap County/West Puget, WA. Reoccurring sighting.
Deer Park · WA, USA
9 bright orange lights over Deer Park, Washington.
Shelton · WA, USA
Very fast horizontal, low-flying, silent light.
Bellingham · WA, USA
Witnessed a very large-dark object with three red lights, distanced by triangle traveling between large cedar trees and the beach shore
Spanaway · WA, USA
Object was moving fast from W to the E and it looked lower than commercial airlines. Duration was about 2 seconds It was a greeni
Seattle · WA, USA
I was taking a photo of the Space Needle at night, but didn't see anything in the sky at that time. Photo shows a bright blueish obj..
Renton · WA, USA
6 white/red objects moving west to east over Renton, WA.
Brush Prairie · WA, USA
8 red lights in the night sky stationary in a weird diagonal formation.
Bellingham · WA, USA
Bellingham, WA, 3 unknown flying crafts appeared at approximately 6:30 PM Pacific Time. They were red/orange colored.