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My story really doesn’t add anything to the conversation that hasn’t already been said, probably why I’ve never shared it, however I just felt like sharing it anyways.

I was about 10 or so and I was at my grandparents house right on the Hood Canal waterfront, in between Twanoh park and Union. It was about lunch time and everyone was inside getting ready to eat chicken salad sandwiches. I was on the patio, tired from scooting around on a “Roller Racer” and hanging on the patio railing looking over the water. There was always something to see, seaplanes taking off from Alderbrook to the west, Skiers/boaters romping around, seagulls harassing anything, otters ottering. It was a bright and blue sunny day with mild winds

I caught something glinting in the sky to my left, seen in the sky over the snow capped olympic mountains through the bend of the canal. It was incredibly bright, not in an illuminating way, but like the sun glinting off reflective surfaces. I could easily tell it was out of the ordinary from my significant astigmatism, it was a brilliant star like pattern coming from the object, scintillating as it moved across my view.

As it got closer I could actually make out what it was, opposite side of the canal over the treeline, it was in the shape of a perfect sphere, chromatic, like a mirror, and I could see the surface was smooth but didn’t seem solid, it rippled like it was water. It was significant in size, if it was indeed moving just over the other side of the canal, I would put it at 15-20ft diameter.

Anyways I was just watching it go across to the east at an eerily constant and considerable pace. Whole thing was probably 45 seconds to 1 minute coming from the mountains from the west out of sight to the east. It was hauling ass.

Still remember it like it was yesterday. Uneventful, but truly peculiar, never seen anything like it since.