An email to the Times from someone who saw the object:

I just wanted to let you know what I saw on Tuesday evening. I was driving eastbound on 164th St SE near Mill Creek around 430pm. It was near sunset and I noticed a huge red light east over the foothills. There were 4 lights in a square that were pulsating. I had never seen anything like that so I continued driving east hoping to get a better view out east. However the trees were in the way and I couldn’t get up high enough to see over them. I gave up and went home thinking it was nothing. Then I read your blog today about the other ufo sightings. I wonder if anyone else saw that red light.

Several years ago in the Tiger MT area. my girlfriend and I were laying on a trampoline, in my uncles yard (late evening) when we both saw something come in over the trees. it was spinning with only white lights on solid ( it came in horizontally just above the tree line) stopped (still spinning) then shot almost straight up and out of sight. don’t know what it was but never seen anything like it before or since.

A pair of mystery booms that were reported from Seattle to Chehalis Washington have been credited to several F-15 fighter jets breaking the sound barrier while responding to an “Unknown Aircraft” that had breached restricted airspace set up protect President Obama while he was visiting Seattle on August 17th.

While we wait for the FAA to tell us the “Unknown Aircraft” was a balloon, a kite, or some poor guys in a pontoon plane, we’re sticking with the UFO theory.

At about 11pm on July 8th, multiple witnesses claimed to see orange balls of light over Seattle, Vancouver and Olympia Washington.

While some of the recent rash of Orange Ball of Light UFOs (ORBL) could be credited to Chinese Lanterns launched for the 4th of July, this getting a bit weird.

Source: Mysterious ‘fireball’ reported over Vancouver skies Thursday night

Description: I saw a glowing orange ball traveling east above the Columbia River near Portland. the ball was traveling approximately 100 miles per hour. It was difficult to judge altitude. The clouds were low and the ball did not look to be obstructed by the clouds. This was very unsettling.

Additional Report by Witness (In Response to Investigator Questions): I heard no sound at all. The object was reddish-orange, not exactly a ball. It was difficult to focus on due to the shimmering light. There were a couple planes in the sky and this was definitely not a plane. We are surprised not to have read about it anywhere yet.

Note: The closest airport to where the sighting occurred was Portland-Troutdale. Skies were overcast with cloud bases at 4,900 feet at the time of the sighting.

And to add extra interest to this report, my family and I were driving back from Northern California to Olympia, Washington and passed through Portland at a bit before 10:30 pm on June 2nd. This report was from 10:20 pm.

By the time we hit Portland, we had been in the car for over 16 hours and a flying saucer could have landed on I-5 right in front of us and I probably would have just driven past it, but I find the time synchronicity very remarkable.

Check out the full report at www.ufosnw.com

Between 7pm and 8pm on March 13th, 2010, multiple reports of UFOs were seen near and around Edmonds Washington, which is located about 20 miles North of Seattle.

At least 10 people saw unidentified lights, described as reddish and orange in color, float through the Northwest sky. One witness reported a faint hum when the objects passed over head.

These objects match other reports of ORBLs (Orange Ball of Lights) that have been seen all over the world (especially popular in the UK) in the last several years. Some skeptics get caught up in the Orange Balls of Light Chinese Lantern Theory (ORBLCLT), which may explain some of the sightings, but I honestly don’t believe it explains all of them.

I was looking out the front window of our house and saw a group of bright unusual lights. They of orange color in the sky. My husband saw them too. The lights were moving in a group in a northwesterly direction and didn’t look like anything we had ever seen. We can see a distance across a park toward Mountlake Terrace from our window, and we saw another group of lights coming toward us. There were about 5 in the group. When they got overhead, one of the lights did a circle back toward another light and made a trail of light where it had been. It was like a little curly cue of orange in the sky. Then a single light came last. It was the strangest thing.

MUFON has a possibly related sighting on record at 10:15 PM the same night from Sunnyside WA, over 200 miles to the South East. That report is also of two dark, orangish brown balls moving East/North East.

MUFON Event ID 22814

At 10:15pm I stepped out to smoke, and looked up and from behind what was obscured by a large tree came two dark, orangish brown balls that were faintly lit. They moved E-NE, slowly, over my house, and I lost sight of them. As they came from behind the tree, one was behind the other, and then they shifted to side by side. I perceived them to be very low, and though it may have been traffic, there was a whisping type sound. At first I thought it was perhaps an advertising light, but there are no car lots for many miles (40 I think) and no clouds either. There is a military zone not too far from here, in the same direction.

In addition to the 10 reports from near Edmonds and the Sunnyside report, a report from Yelm, Washington, some 75 miles to the South of Edmonds at 8 pm the same night may or may not be related, but is certainly of interest.

A single white light this time, moving to the east.

I saw a solid light much brighter than stars on a clear night around 8:00 PM, March 13, 2010. I saw the light in the sky to the northeast. The light was seen at about 25 degrees off of the horizon, but I could not determine distance. The light appeared to be moving very slowly to the east. The color was white, with no change in luminosity or color. After about 5 to 7 seconds of observing light, the light gradually, but rapidly accelerated toward the east. As it did so, the luminosity diminished quickly. After about 4 seconds acceleration time the object was no longer visible. I then went inside of house for about 2 minutes and came back outside and looked toward sky again. The object (light) was not visible. Suddenly, appearing at about the same place as where the light was initially observed, a bright light (maybe two to three times brighter than the original light) appeared for about a second, almost like a flash and then disappeared. No photos or video were taken. The size of the light/object was not discernible.

Scientists and the local utility company don’t know the cause.

Could it be connected to the June 1947 ‘Maury Island incident’, when Harold A. Dahl and his son saw several “doughnut-shaped objects” while on a boat off the shore of Maury Island, near Vashon Island? Dahl’s story is that one of the ships appeared to be flying erratically and possibly crashed into the Puget Sound near Vashon Island.

The hum is described as a very low persistent low-frequency pure tone that people have heard all across the Island.