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There have been three sightings that happened this week in Commencement Bay and Elliott Bay.

No one knows why a sizeable white whale is swimming off the coast of Seattle. No one knows why an enormous white whale is swimming off the coast of Seattle.

The wayward creatures very rare appearance is the first documented sighting of a beluga whale in Puget Sound, off the coast of the US state of Washington, in more than 80 years.

There have been three sightings that happened this week in Commencement Bay and Elliott Bay.

The whales normally live much farther north in the colder waters of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.

The whale is more than 1,000 miles beyond the typical range for beluga whales, which typically stay near Alaska and throughout the Arctic, according to a statement from NOAA.

There were two sightings that happened roughly a day apart in Commencement Bay and Elliott Bay.

PUGET SOUND, Wash. – There have been rare sightings of a beluga whale in […]

The whale is alone, unusual for these social creatures, and could have strayed from its pod due to lack of food or poisoning.

Marine mammal conservation groups are working to get a health assessment of the whale, which was identified from a video taken Sunday.