Occurred: 2016-01-22 23:55 Local
Reported: 2016-01-23 00:29 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Tacoma, WA, USA

Shape: Other


Flaming silent object near joint military base JBLM in south Tacoma.

Seen out a north facing window. Appeared as a large, balled up sheet of paper on fire, and was moving rapidly south, just east of I-5.

I ran outside and saw it continue southward silently at about sixty mph. It neither slowed down, nor speed up. It traveled straight and level and, as I wrote before, was completely silent.

The weird thing-as though that wasn't weird enough-was that the orange glow and subdued flames were not streaming behind it. The flames/glow were as if it was actually a stationary object even though it was traveling through the air (as I wrote) at about sixty mph. It soon disappeared behind a tall stand of firs, where I lost track of it.

Posted 2016-01-23

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