I'm collecting oral histories from experiencers from 1990s Seattle and I remembered this story from my time in avionics C-school in the U.S. Marines in 2004. The story goes that a hapless Navy or Marine Corps avionics tech working at Whidbey Island on an EA-6B Prowler flipped a switch and deployed an EMP that shut down portions of Everett and north Seattle. The Prowlers were in service from the early 1970s until 2015.1 I wrote it off as bullshit meant to scare us new techs into being extra ca...

Around June of 2022 I had stepped out of my home because I heard the usual fighter jets flying overhead towards whidbey island, upon looking up I saw what appeared to be a silver orb/sphere almost the size of the jet that was following it at a low 3 o clock position as it disappeared over the mountains to the west. Has anyone else seen a similar object or that same object from that time frame?