Location of Sighting: Carnation Washington
Date of Sighting: January 28, 2019
Time of Sighting: 6 PM PST
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Description: My sister and I were driving today Jan 28, 2019 in Carnation, WA around 6:00 PM. It was a clear sky and we happened to see this strange object moving slow. It made no sound and had no blinking lights. At first we thought it was a satellite, but it was too low and too large. It looked like a big Star moving across the sky and then disappeared.
I’m curious to know what you think this could be.
Note: A check of the Heavens Above satellite database shows that the International Space Station was visible at the location and at the time of the sighting. I believe that this is what the witnesses saw.
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I live close to a town named Belfair not too far from Carnation, WA. I was outside taking a smoke. I looked up and saw something moving east. To what I could see it was bright, and almost took on a triangle shape with lights beaming out from all the triangles sides, almost like a star, but from what I could tell was it was from inside the atmosphere much lower then any airplanes I see flying around, commercial anyways. It maybe was close to what a prop plane would fly, but there was absolutely no sign of sound. I waited and watched as it flew slow and sometimes changing it’s course slightly. Slightly being it was a noticeable change in direction, but still remained to head in a the relatively same direction being east. after about 1 to 2 minutes it disappeared suddenly. So that is what really puzzled me. If it was the space station it wouldn’t have had a variable speed like it did, and definitely wouldn’t have changed directions the way it did. This did happened at night, around the same time this post was created. I told my friend I was playing video games with about this, and being we talk about strange things, he told me if could have been a secret military aircraft. This thing was bright and had long gleaming light from all 3 edges of the triangle and it was something truly amazing and interesting to look at.
It looks like a fire lantern. People often buy these online and then use them for special events.
I am reasonably sure that the object is the Space Station.