USS Tiru

Five panel intelligence dossier collage for the Washington State UFO UAP alien sightings location archive showing left Kenneth Arnold's 1947 cockpit view of nine crescent-shaped objects skipping in formation past Mount Rainier launching the modern UFO era, upper center-left Harold Dahl's patrol boat in Puget Sound under six donut-shaped objects dropping metallic slag in the Maury Island incident three days before Arnold, center a lone figure on a Glenwood Cascade Mountain ridge path dwarfed by the underside of a mile-long rectangular silverish craft with three ball probes descending in the early 1930s, upper center-right USS TIRU submarine officers watching a metallic disc rise from Dabob Bay in the 1966 naval USO encounter, and right a silent black triangle with three white corner lights and a red center pulse moving over Seattle's city lights at 2:45 AM in 2007

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United States Sightings

Sighting by Location: Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: May 27, 2026 | Updated: May 27, 2026

Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive Washington State holds a position in UFO|UAP research that no other U.S. state can claim: it is the...

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Washington Sightings

1966: USS TIRU Encounters UFO

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: March 2, 2021

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT Date: January 1966 Sighting Time: late afternoon Day/Night: Day Location: Dabob Bay, Seattle Washington, on USS Tiru SS-416 Urban or...

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A forensic split-view reconstruction of two 1966 UFO sightings. Left: A 25-foot grey disc rising from a Queensland lagoon creating a water vortex. Right: A clinical sketch of an egg-shaped craft hovering over telephone lines in La Harpe, Illinois, with a humanoid in a white suit standing on a hull platform.

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1966 Sightings

1966: January UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: October 29, 2012 | Updated: April 24, 2026

1966: January UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The January 1966 UFO sightings represent a high-density period of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3)...

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USS Tiru

Sighting by Location: Washington UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1966: USS TIRU Encounters UFO

1966: January UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1950: Pope AFB, North Carolina – Miami Airlines Pilots Chase Four Discs, and an Army Captain Reports a Crossing Object Five Minutes Later

1950: Camaguey, Cuba — Four Men in a Bonanza and a Polished Disc Trailing a Blue Flame

1950: Pine Bluff, Arkansas — Six Witnesses and a Bright Silver Disc

1950: North of Cromer, England — Two Meteors, Two Contrails, No Aircraft