THE ARCHIVE
What was already on the record.
Washington did not start being strange when this site launched. Kenneth Arnold coined “flying saucer” over Mt. Rainier in 1947; the Ape Canyon miners barricaded a cabin in 1924; Lake Chelan had creature accounts in the 1890s. These are the documented cases — the ones with newspapers, testimony and paper trails behind them.
Looking for what people are reporting now? The full case index has everything, recent and historical.
7 of 7 cases
- WA-1947-0001UAP / AerialHISTORICAL ARCHIVEThe Kenneth Arnold sightingNine crescent objects pacing past Mt. Rainier at impossible speed. The report that coined "flying saucer."
- WA-1947-0002UAP / AerialHISTORICAL ARCHIVEMaury Island incidentDebris-dropping discs over Puget Sound, days before Arnold. Contested, tangled, and thoroughly Washington.
- WA-1924-0001SasquatchUNEXPLAINEDThe siege at Ape CanyonFive miners, one night, hundreds of thrown stones. A founding text of Bigfoot lore.
- WA-1972-0003SasquatchUNEXPLAINEDBlue Mountains recordingsDecades of track finds and recorded vocalizations in the state's southeast corner.
- WA-1974-0006Strange lightsHISTORICAL ARCHIVEYakima Valley light phenomenaRecurring nocturnal lights logged by fire lookouts — one of the few genuinely studied series.
- WA-1892-0001OtherHISTORICAL ARCHIVELake Chelan creature accountsDeep-lake anomaly stories dating to settler-era newspapers.
- WA-1997-0009OtherHISTORICAL ARCHIVEMel's HoleThe bottomless-pit legend that gripped late-night radio. Searched for, never found.