Port Angeles, Washington - 06-25-12

I was sitting on my back porch smoking a cigarette. I always look towards the foothills and the night sky.

On this night, all of a sudden a bright, red-orange ball ascended out of the foothills.

I immediately stood up and looked through my binoculars to see if I could see a shape to the object.

All I could see was a bright, bright red orb. It slowly moved up a few degrees and then stopped. At this time I noticed it was fluctuating in size and color.

I yelled for my son and my husband to look outside; it then slowly moved to the east. All this time it was below the mountains and the cloud cover, but it was inside a thick level of a fog.

I reached down for my phone so I could record it on video. I turned my recorder on and saw it in the viewfinder and then it just disappeared.

It did not move away, it did not go behind a building or trees, it just disappeared.

The area that I witnessed this I am very familiar with. It appeared right above Franklin Elementary School and there is no way a plane or helicopter could be flying that low in that area.

I stayed outside using my binoculars to search for it, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere or anything else. There was no noise at all; no planes, no jets, and no helicopters in the area at the time.

This is just another strange event in Port Angeles. I will keep a lookout for further objects.