Washington is No. 1 in UFO sightings

• Sept. 5, 2018, Vancouver: “White star ‘fell To Earth,’ then turned a golden glowing sphere. … This object glowed right into a ‘golden entity’ that would presumably even have been some kind of a celestial being. … Actuality appeared to ‘ripple’ round this object. … Felt good to look at it, as if I’d been ready my complete life to see it.”

• Sept. 7, 2020, Brush Prairie: “A number of white objects within the sky. … I’ve requested pilots and pals and nobody has any concepts. I’m at a whole loss.”

• July 31, 2020, Vancouver: “Terribly vivid, metallic, cigar-shaped object shifting with unchanging pace and path disappears into timber. … In the course of the sighting I seen the truck behind me swerve onto the emergency lane, then re-enter site visitors after the objects disappeared. I assume he was seeing the identical factor we have been.”

• Feb. 6, 2021, Vancouver: “A glowing orb … moved erratically left to proper, ahead and again then shot straight up. … My husband and I’ve nearly 30 years every within the aviation enterprise. By no means seen something like this.”

• Feb. 9, 2022, Battle Floor: A person woke up at 1 a.m. by a loud sound like a avenue sweeper noticed 20-foot-wide disc hovering and shining a beam down the road. The person’s pet rabbit was additionally disturbed. The person reported that messages shaped in his thoughts: “It’s OK. We’re not going to harm you, we’re simply taking some measurements. We might be gone quickly.”

• March 8, 2022, Trout Lake: Navy pilots on a return journey from Boardman, Ore., airspace noticed a “white glowing orb” that seemed to be on a collision course with their aircraft, and took evasive motion. The orb dropped into cloud cowl and disappeared.

—Scott Hewitt