Occurred: 2012-08-11 23:10 Local
Reported: 2012-08-12 00:22 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Mount Vernon, WA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Large, silent, triangular craft moving very fast, stopping suddenly, then disappearing.

I was on my back porch, watching the Perseids meteor shower. I saw a triangular shaped, extremely fast moving object, gliding from north to south, directly overhead. It crossed about 2/3 of the sky in about 5 seconds, much faster than any aircraft could do. It was completely silent. It stopped dead in one spot in the southern half of the sky and stayed in place for a moment. I pointed at it and said, "I see you!" The triangle rotated in place, and then the lights faded out completely.

This is the second time I have seen this type of craft -- the only UFO sightings in my life. The other one was in a different state, but it also appeared during the Perseids meteor shower and behaved almost exactly the same, except it faded away rather than stopping in one spot first. In both cases, there was a kind of shimmery appearance surrounding the object.

I am not sure how big the craft was, but it had to be several times larger than any sort of airplane. It was difficult to tell how high its elevation was. If it was flying where one would expect a plane to be (30-40,000 feet), I would have to guess that it was massive, maybe 300 feet across? If it was higher than that, I have no idea how big it could have been.

Posted 2012-08-19

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