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Occurred : 7/4/2009 00:45 (Entered as : 07042009 0:45)
Reported: 7/4/2009 1:04:23 AM 01:04
Posted: 8/5/2009
Location: Everett, WA
Shape: Sphere
Duration:2 minutes
Blood red firey UFO moving easterly past the moon vanishing with a red streak.

My Girlfriend and I witnessed what we thought was a Japanese Lantern but it seemed to move very quickly and moved vertically, up and down, while strafing left (east) past the moon. It was a blood red object, seemingly on fire, yet as it moved past the moon it grew dimmer. Then it vanished with a quick tracer back towards the upper skyline back towards the west.

It was a unique event to witness. It being the 4th of July now I suspected it to be a lantern but it's speed, movement, and swiftness led me to believe it was a UFO.

It wasn't a flare, plane, balloon, nor meteor. Therefore it's just classified as a UFO.