Tacoma, Wa
April 9th 2026 8:50 pm
I am by no means a conspiracy theory junkie, alien lover, or UFO enthusiast. Iām your everyday, coffee sipping, Jesus loving, birdwatching, avocado toast eating millennial dog mom, okay? And I say that because I would not post something unless I truly experienced it.
This is what I believe to be my UFO encounter.
My husband and I were on our regular dog walk under a perfectly clear, starry night sky. While he was teaching me how to identify Orion, we saw an object with three soft white lights forming the shape of a triangle floating above us. It appeared to be gliding or floating more than flying. It was coming from the southwest, headed north, when it abruptly took a right, left from our point of view, toward the Cascade Mountains.
It didnāt make the wide, gradual turns that normal aircraft do. It just drifted left, almost like the wind shifted it or like a fish moving through water. It was flying lower than an airplane, but higher than a helicopter would when searching for something. It made no sound. No propeller, no propulsion, just silence. There were no blinking or flashing lights, no other lights at all actually.
My husband quickly said, in a shocked voice, āI think thatās a UFO.ā Now, he has a strong interest in all things space and NASA, which is why we were stargazing, and at one point he even wanted to join the military. He still geeks out over military tech, so he is pretty good at identifying flying objects based on shape, color, and sound, and he is almost always right. We frequently confirm his guesses with the flight radar app.
So I didnāt want to believe him at first, but I swallowed hard and focused carefully. In what felt like 15 seconds, it was gone.
We quickly opened the radar app to see what it could of been. We live near a military base, so there are often aircraft around us, but nothing showed up where we were. Then within maybe 2 minutes, various helicopters appeared, both on the app and overhead.
A Blackhawk helicopter flew directly over us with search lights pointed downward, heading in the same direction as the object. On the radar app we could see Blackhawks, Apache, Chinooks all circling the greater area in patterns that looked more like they were looking for something vs flying to a destination.
Now could that be a coincidence? Yes of course. But it does feel erie that right after the sighting all these military aircrafts started roaming the area.
Regardless, this craft was unreal.
Iām really documenting this here because Iām afraid I might gaslight myself into thinking it was all a dream. When we got home we were still in shock and started talking about it with my mom. We looked up whether others had seen something similar and I guess this triangle shaped UFO is commonly reported.
We didnāt get a photo. We couldnāt capture it in time because we were so aww struck in the moment.
Iām lowkey freakin out. Is this real? Has anyone else seen this??
It even looks like the first image in this video:. https://youtube.com/shorts/VjdBaIC57zk?si=-KeUYXA0zooiapFU
by Taetae105
2 Comments
Yes maāam, that sounds like you saw the classic triangle with the three lights, with the optional helicopter follow-up. Some believe they are TR-3Bās.
I would say based your description and what your husband said….Y’all saw an actual UFO.
No Sound, Triangle in shape and 3 white lights in the corners. Chased by law enforcement, military as well as everyday citizens.
Once while vacationing in Kansas, not far from Fort Riley, myself and 11 others saw the exact thing you describe here.
This was many moons ago, around 1986 to be exact.
Black Triangle, No Sound, Huge, Turned on a dime..not like a commercial plane would bank and gradually turn, I’m talking it literally turned Left and was flying just as you describe here.
Like you, we were all in awe about what we were looking at. Later that night, it was on the local news as others had reported seeing it.
For years, I wondered and wondered about it. My fascination grew and I found myself so intrigued by the experience, that it led to my career as an Investigative Journalist.
I’ve interviewed well over 100 people that have seen the Black Triangle. All of them described it with more or less the way you did.
We are not alone…we haven’t been alone for a very, very long time…