NUFORC UFO Sighting 186341
Occurred: 2025-01-01 20:30 Local
Reported: 2025-01-02 12:35 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Elma, WA, USA
Location details: Across the street from Elma high school

Shape: Circle
Color: Silver
Estimated Size: Massive and circular in shape
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: I was standing Right below the UFO on 9th street
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: Close in range
Estimated Speed: Slow
Explanation: Drone - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object

January 1st 2025, My daughter was driving the vehicle. There were four of us in the vehicle. I was in the back passenger seat of vehicle. I was looking out the window toward the sky. It was approximately 8:30 PM at night. It was dark outside. I noticed an object coming down out of the sky. I pointed up to it and I said stop the car that is a UFO. I told my daughter to stop the car, and I got out. I tried to record it and the camera became blurry. I continue to record the object in the sky. The front of the UFO appeared to be circular and had different colored lights in the front, and then there were three lights underneath it. It flew right above us. The UFO stopped above us for a few seconds. I could see a square like glass underneath the UFO with 3 lights. The UFO and went up in the air and then went upwards into the air and disappeared in the sky. My 12-year-old daughter kept saying it was a drone, but it was not a drone. I know what drones look like. It was not an airplane either. We also clearly range. There was also a neighbor nearby who saw the same thing.







Posted 2025-01-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 129860
Occurred: 2016-09-10 12:00 Local
Reported: 2016-09-11 10:32 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Elma, WA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Fast moving, bright shimmering rectangular object near Elma WA in daylight

On 9-10-16, apx. 12-1210pm, while on my daily walk, I saw a large, shimmering, fast moving, rectangular shaped object for 3 to 5 seconds.

The sky was clear blue, cloudless, windless, sun up and shining. I was near Utility Lane, Elma, Washington, walking eastwards. Elevation is about 300 ft. The object appeared to head from Northerly direction east of ELMA to a Southerly direction towards Oakville, over the tops of hills that are about 500 ft in elevation. After about 3 seconds, it turned to a black color, and dropped in altitude, and became obscured by a closer hill. Never saw object again. Did not hear any sound.

Unable to determine distance and size of object from my vantage point.

Speed was significantly faster than a standard prop plane.

Also, there were no noticeable aircraft flying even though there is a small airport nearby, and this is in a flight path for military aircraft as well as SEA-TAC International airport. I've seen many planes, ultralights and helicopters on a near daily basis in the area, over many years, and this was not one of them. The only reason for this report is the extremely bright shimmering, approaching a welding arc color in brightness. Difficult to look at. Even aluminum skinned planes aren't this bright! As a side note, I mentioned this to a friend in Oakville, WA. She was on the phone to a friend in California when she heard a sudden thundering sound that somewhat echoed, and was gone as fast as it started. She heard this about the same time as I witnessed the object in question, from my location about 15 miles away. It may or may not be related.

Posted 2016-09-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 126667
Occurred: 2013-03-05 09:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-04-02 06:03 Pacific
Duration: 12 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Elma, NY, USA

Shape: Other


Low flying, silent, white colored, space shuttle shaped craft flying past my house.

Standing, looking out my kitchen window on a beautiful March morning, I noticed what looked like a small model airplane coming toward my house. As it came closer, I could see that it was much larger than what I first thought. It looked like the space shuttle,but much smaller and with more rounded wings. I would describe it as follows. About 20' long, 15' from wing tip to wing tip, about 5' in width, all white, no lights, and no sound.

When I saw the object flying toward my house, I noticed that on each side of the nose of the craft, there was what I can only describe as a gray, blurry effect, where two jet engines would be on a normal plane. (Like a TV station does when showing a news scene and blurring out faces so the people cannot be recognized)

At about 100 feet from my house, the craft suddenly made a slight turn away and flew directly over the steeple of the Methodist Church next door to me, at a height of about 250 feet. I would guess the speed at about 300 MPH.

It then gained altitude and as it flew away from me,I noticed the back of the object had a rectangle shape, about 10' X 5', all black, with four white nozzles in a row, but with no exhaust gasses coming out of them. The craft than accelerated and disappeared into billowy white clouds.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2016-04-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 56233
Occurred: 2007-04-14 21:00 Local
Reported: 2007-04-15 00:51 Pacific
Duration: 23:00
No of observers: 4

Location: Elma, WA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

A large bright light that would blackout and then become bright along with 2 smaller ones Orange in color moving all around.

I have finally witnessed it for myself. As I was outside this evening I noticed a bright light in the sky that resembled a very bright star. As I looked at it I noticed it went from bright to dim, then it would go completely black and return to full brightness.

I found this to be odd and alerted my two sons, my mother, and my husband. I showed them this object in the sky to the west of our home. We watched it for some time and noticed there were a couple of more objects, yet they were smaller in size and and were orange in color. These objects seemed to float from side to side as if they were in a sweeping motion.

We witnessed this for some time until these objects started descending downward and further west. It then disappeared out of sight.

Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 24782
Occurred: 2002-08-28 23:30 Local
Reported: 2002-08-30 21:33 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 4

Location: Elma, WA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

this is weird!!

it was weird!! because we were having a hot tub party and someone said look at that it was kind of a bright light that would wigle around then i spoted something else out of the corner of my eye and i said look and we all looked and it changed colors and it wasnt a plane!! we just stood there... it didnt help that about a week ago i just watched signs... im not a huge star person but i just thought i'de check if anyone else in the area saw it.. the second one that i was talking about changed colors.. it wend from like a blue to a red to a white... it also went from side to side!! i saw the one that was towards olympia on the 22nd... this is freakin me out!



NUFORC Note:

We suspect a twinkling star. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2002-09-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 8685
Occurred: 1997-06-01 00:00 Local
Reported: 1999-08-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Elma, WA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

It was saucer shaped, a dome with a ring around it which rotated, windows in the dome, white like bright light, flying low.

I was extemely busy during the time the Hail Bob comet was visible. I didn't watch tv, listen the radio, or talk to anyone about anything except law and polotics. It had been visible for about a week or two when a friend had called me one evening. He asked what I thought about the awsome Hail Bob comet. I asked what he was referring to so he insisted that I walk outdoors and look. First, I went in the back of my apartment and looked into the feild. I told my friend that I couldn't see anything which looked like what he had discribed. Then, he said to go look on the other side of the building. I saw the Hail Bob and wondered How I could overlook it for so many days while I was coming and going from my home. I went back into my apartment and decided to step out my back door again and take one last look at the stars before shuting the door. When I looked up I saw a white saucer shaped object with a dome which had windows, and the ring around it was rotating. It was lit up like an extremely bright flourecent light. It was flying low in the feild and went up into the clouds. It blended right in with them. It moved swift as it went up and then forward. It was coming away from the direction of the Hail Bob comet. As this was happening, I asked my friend if he saw what I was seeing. He said yes, and we discussed it. It looked smaller to him because he was talking to me from Porter. After this event, I told my neighbor about seeing a U.F.O. and before I could discribe it she interupted. She said that she saw these all of the time from her apartment and they were white and lit up. It was a blinding light which made it look as though there was an aura around it. I was amazed because I hadn't seen one before and she lived in the same complex as I do. I hadn't discribed it to her and yet her discription matched mine. The reason I am reporting this 1997 event now is because I just discovered this web site.



NUFORC Note:

The Hale-Bopp Comet was visible during late March of that year, I seem to recall.


Posted 1999-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 393
Occurred: 1995-03-29 20:15 Local
Reported: 1995-04-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Elma, WA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02