NUFORC UFO Sighting 179399
Occurred: 2023-11-13 23:00 Local
Reported: 2023-11-15 13:07 Pacific
Duration: 4 min probably longer
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, WA, USA
Location details: deep valley that runs south to north

Shape: Light
Color: white
Estimated Size: unk
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: sww
Angle of Elevation: 38
Closest Distance: unk
Estimated Speed: n/a


3 stationary white out of focus very bright lights in a line east to west about 6 degrees apart (the width of fingers)

I was standing near a south facing window in my house in Northern Pend Oreille County WA. On 13 November around 11pm I saw three very bright Lights that looked like very bright “out of focus” stars in a horizontal line each was about 6 degrees spacing along the ecliptic in the direction of SWW. I thought for a moment that I should take a photo but realized the lights would not make a good photo. They did not seem to be moving. I debated on waking my husband up and instead went to bed. I told my husband about this the next morning and he mentioned that after looking on stelerium that Orion’s belt was in that area but it was not in a horizontal line. Jupiter was visible farther to the west. On the 14th and 15th I noticed military aircraft circling the area south of our house.

Posted 2023-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 178913
Occurred: 2023-10-15 07:23 Local
Reported: 2023-10-15 18:46 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, CA, USA
Location details: Possibly above Ione ca, or Jackson Ca

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

As I was driving home from work I noticed a green or light blue colored light/orb in the sky not a drone.rapid movement high altitude.

On 10/15/2023 at approximately 0723 Hours I noticed the light by chance as I merged from buena vista road in Ione, Ca onto highway 88 going east towards Jackson, Ca . The sun was bright and there was some condensation trails in the sky . As I admired the sky for a brief moment I noticed a small star like light that was light green or blue, possibly both . I noticed the odd star like object was bouncing and at first I thought it was a drone but realized it was not because the aerodynamics of the object was wrong and the altitude of the object was rather high in the clouds . It bounced and reversed up and down and then left and right he and would come to a sudden stop . The object then shot up into a condensation cloud left by an aircraft in the sky that was already dispersing . I attempted to video the object but only caught slight glimpses of it that are hard to differentiate on film . The object seemed to be flying/hovering over Jackson,ca or it could have been further east in the foothills as it was hard to judge distance . The sighting only lasted a few moments and then it was gone . I saw no trace of the object the rest of my ride home . For being very bright already outside I ruled out stars and the movement of the object and altitude rules out drones.

Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170089
Occurred: 2022-06-25 23:00 Local
Reported: 2022-06-26 00:06 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Ione, CA, USA
Location details: Rural

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted

Nothing like we've ever seen before. After the sighting we can to the street to try to see and orbs started circling around us

Insane

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165136
Occurred: 2021-07-01 04:54 Local
Reported: 2021-11-01 06:20 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, WA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail

I was trying to observe the elongation of Polaris by looking at the handle of the big dipper. A bright light flew overhead at high speed, silent over my location. It traveled NW (at an approximate azimuth of 35-40 degrees from true north. Possibly a meteor. A few minutes later I looked in the same general direction to try and pinpoint the track of the first object and I saw a bright flash like a star had just dimmed out.

Posted 2021-11-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142578
Occurred: 2018-08-05 21:30 Local
Reported: 2018-08-05 21:47 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, WA, USA

Shape: Other


Bright object moves west to east above Jupiter.

Was viewing Jupiter thru 30 power scope on total station.

I saw a bright white light about as bright as Jupiter and tracked it for a while as it headed west to east (heading was about about 90 to 110 degrees).

Last seen thru scope angle was 203d 21' 54", elevation 27d 13' 11" (from my location at 48d, 46' 58.1", -117d 17' 16.5", ne of Ione WA).

Object did not have any flashing navigation lights and I went outside to listen for sound and could hear nothing, no wind.

It traversed my field of view about 5 degrees west and above jupiter to the hill to my south east in perhaps less than 35~45 seconds.

Posted 2018-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125744
Occurred: 2016-02-10 05:15 Local
Reported: 2016-02-10 06:46 Pacific
Duration: continuous
No of observers: 2

Location: Ione, OR, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Observed a triangular shaped filmy patch of light moving from east to west at 5:15 am north of Ione, OR, which moved at a constant speed

We observed a triangular shaped patch of moderately bright, white light moving from east to west. It had semitransparent, filmy appearance as opposed to being a opaque object. We first observed it in Cygnus in the eastern sky. It had moved about 2/3 of the way to the western horizon in about 15 min.

In size it was about the area of a quarter held at arm's length. It looked somewhat like the constellation Pleiades but much brighter. It appeared to be a fan emanating from a bright point of light on its left (south) side. The object was still visible as it passed from our viewing range.

We are retired farm couple who were enjoying our predawn hot tub.




NUFORC Note:

Sighting of launch of Delta IV rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD


Posted 2016-02-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 120699
Occurred: 2015-07-03 22:30 Local
Reported: 2015-07-27 22:23 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, WA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

An object that appeared to be a satellite, but changed course and speed repeatedly.

On the evening of July 3rd, at about 10:30 PM, I was outside, looking up at the stars, as I enjoy doing, when I noticed what I initially thought was a satellite moving across the sky. The “satellite” then changed course and began to move around irregularly.

It would move in loops and swirls, staying in one general area, changing velocity occasionally. Every now and then I could see a faint shimmering in the area and would sometimes see what looked like another “satellite” moving in a similar fashion, but only for a second or two and then disappear. At one point the object turned red for 2 or 3 seconds then returned to normal.

At one point I saw something flash out in my peripheral vision. It was like a shooting star/ meteor moving towards the original object, yet this “meteor” only moved at the speed of a satellite, much slower than a meteor.

About 10 seconds later I saw another “meteor,” also moving towards the original object, but from a different direction.

I don’t know what I saw but it looked to me like it was a craft involved in some sort of combat with other craft. I was 70 miles or more from any city of any size, the night was quiet. I do not know what it was but I can tell you what is wasn’t: an airplane, a helicopter A Satellite, Swamp Gas, A Weather Balloon, Venus.

I am curious if anyone else has seen something like this.

Posted 2015-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79727
Occurred: 2011-01-18 22:07 Local
Reported: 2011-01-18 22:36 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Ione, WA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Redish-Orange object falling ne to sw in souther sky south of Sullivan Lake, Ione, Wa

On 20110118 at approximately 22:07 (Pacific Time) while looking south-south west from a location just south of Sullivan Lake (NE of the town of Ione, WA) I observed what most likely was a Meteor passing from the north east to the south west. The object went just below the three stars on Orion's belt downward at about a 45 degree angle. The object was left a reddish-orange streak in the sky. I make this report even though it probably was a meteor just to help document this "UFO".



Posted 2011-01-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59192
Occurred: 2007-07-26 22:30 Local
Reported: 2007-10-11 00:35 Pacific
Duration: 10MIN
No of observers: 9

Location: Ione, WA, USA

Shape: Circle


Up camping and saw green glowing fireballs in the sky OMG

Ok I was a non-believer until this day. This was located around Ione Washington about 10 miles south July 27. There were 9 of us that witness this sighting. We were all camping and it was in the evening, and getting ready to go to bed.

When out of the corner of my eye I saw 2 bright green balls they seemed glowing neon like. At first I thought that it was a huge fire work ready to go off then I looked over and realized they weren’t blowing up and they seemed huge about 2 times the size of a basketball.

When I first saw them, they were in between the trees. I said, “OMG Look at that!” to everyone and I started to kind of freak out. I said, “We should get the cam.” but they started too move out of sight. So we all ran out into the drive way out of the tree line and there they were just hovering going slowly up and down and back and forth no real formation. It was kind of bouncy like, hard to explain.

There was no sound at all. They started to slowly go further into space. This lasted about 5 min. or so. They were very bright in the sky even as they got smaller in size. They started to look like a star.

Then my dad said, “Look, there’s a red one” it was going across the sky pretty fast but it seemed it could have been a satellite at first, but it then stopped and went the other way. It then turned around and went out into space following the other two. Then they all disappeared together. We didn’t get pics I am so upset cause they were in the sky for so long. But I can now say I believe that there is something out there.

Almost forgot this part: The next day we were at the beach, and then there was this super loud sound roaring like, when all of a sudden there was air force jets flying really low and really fast. They were following the river. This scared the heck out of us. I have been up camping and my grandparent lived in this area all my life (I'm in my 30's)and never saw either thing ever happen up there before. We do have an air force base in Spokane but not sure if this is related or not. But seems very strange they were in this area the next day.



Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25419
Occurred: 2002-10-05 19:56 Local
Reported: 2002-10-05 21:17 Pacific
Duration: 12 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Ione, CA, USA

Shape: Formation


Very fast,silent, "v"formation, 5-6 points of light, north to south, fairly low, not blinking, reddish hue. Fast.

I had been sitting in a chair outside behind my house for about 1.5 hours. I watched 3 satelites and numerous airplanes pas by. It was dark and as I was watching above, 5-6 points of light traveled approximatley North to South. Odd thing #1: They were moving FAST!!!!!!. I had been watching for for some time at that point and what I saw was moving 10-20 times faster than anything I had seen. Odd thing #2: The points of light were 2-5 times larger than any star in the sky. Odd thing #3: They were also very definite points of light (not blinking) with a more reddish hue than any star.

Odd thing #4: They appearred to be flying low. As I watched earlier, other flying objects dissappeared relatively high on the horizon. These were somewhat lower. Odd thing #5: No sound. I had watched several jet airplanes traveling between 20-30 thousand feet, and as I watched them go by, I could hear them after they passed by. These were silent!!! Odd thing #6: In a broken "V" formation, the ones behind the front one appeared to move out and in somewhat.

I have never seen anything that could not be explained. This was a first.



NUFORC Note:

We suspect that witness probably possesses considerable technical background, judging from his employment. PD


Posted 2002-10-15