NUFORC Sighting 175496

Occurred: 2021-05-15 21:45 Local
Reported: 2023-04-25 00:29 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes or less
No of observers: 6

Location: W.T. Wooten Wild Life Are, WA, USA
Location details: Outside of Dayton past the Wooten wild life are in the umatilla NF the blue mountains camping site

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Missing Time

Unpacking for camp we all see large cylinder 200 yards long with 6 lights on it moving slow and making no sound 400 to 500 yards away

We started unpacking camp after dark. Wife says she hears something that sounds like people walking around in the woods across the road 45 feet or so away. We are standing by our truck and it’s off. I then hear it too. I explain this is most likely a dear and if it’s a predictor I have bear spray and a side arm. I tell her we are fine just keep your flash light on while I start a camp fire and finish unpacking. I move to the back of the truck bed. Kids are standing at the front of the truck with their mom. I see light out of the corner of my eye. I look. I don’t say anything. Wife says do you see that. I say yes. Kids say what. Then they see it too. No one points, it’s extremely obvious. We are at a remote camp site, no other campers or light. They all ask is that a spaceship. I say yup sure looks like it. 200 yards across 400 to 500 yards away above the tree line, moving at a very slow speed making no sound. Ambient light reflecting off of some kind of dark metallic material and large lights running down the middle from one side to the other. Maybe 6 lights. Wife said kids get in truck, they were scared. She said do you have your phone and I said I’m not wasting my time looking for my phone cause I’ll miss this. It moved very slow and further away until it disappeared under the tree line. This lasted for maybe 10 minutes. Wife wanted to leave but I said we are fine. We continued to set up camp which takes like 30 minutes and for some reason it was 2 am when I got done. We got to the site a little before 9 pm. Thought that was really weird and can’t explain it. Wife is 35 I’m 36, kids are 14, 9, 7, and 3. We camp a lot. I tell my kids that it’s likely there are things we can’t explain but we don’t see things like this. We decided not to talk about it and told the kids not to share it with people, it’s just cool that we know this is real. Wife is an educated management professional and I’m self employed as a general contractor. I’ve grown up around military aircraft and spent all my life in the woods. The camp site is on a mountain side, so we had an elevated vantage point for most of our field of view.

Posted 2023-05-19

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