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UFO Sighting Report
Oak Harbor, Washington
January 28, 1988
Principal Witness: Jerry Lang, age 45
MUFON Field Investigator:
Don Olson, Bothell, Washington
Narrative:
I marked the date down on the calendar. On midnight of the
27th (or Thursday morning, January 28th) I was heading home down
my driveway when I saw these 4 lights off to the right of Ika
Island. There was 3 orange lights and a red light. I saw the
lights to the right of the island, over the mouth of the [North
Fork of the] Skagit River [near the town of La Conner,
Washington]. I thought, well, the Indians fish in the river for
Steelhead--gillnetting--and I thought, it must be somebody was
missing and the Navy was out looking for them in a helicopter.
So I hopped out of the car and ran in the house and grabbed my
binoculars.
I could see it was no helicopter and I could have heard it
if it was because the next night one came by, and I could hear
it from here to there. So then I put the spotting scope [45x]
on it and I couldn't see very good with it because it was very
fuzzy. I should have probably turned it down [it was set on the
highest power], but I didn't think about it, you know. So I
just grabbed my binoculars and started looking and I thought,
well, maybe there are some houses there I don't know about, but
I knew there were no houses in that direction.
I watched for 10-15 minutes. The orange lights got
brighter and dimmer while the red light stayed pretty much the
same. I thought, "well, that sure is odd", and I kept trying to
figure it out. I could also see a little bit of white light out
of the bottom of it, like it was shining [a beam of light]
down. I sat here watching the lights and it never did move [the
witness had the impression that all of the lights were part of
the same object].
All of a sudden a "strobe light" flashed on top of the
thing. Five to ten seconds later a single light appeared to the
left. Off to the left, where the little hill is in there, up
about half as high as Ika Island. The light "just appeared". I
didn't see it go over there, it just appeared there.
It started getting brighter and dimmer; it got real bright
and turned perfectly round, just like a fish egg or a balloon,
and had a glow, a little halo all the way around it. Then the
light got dimmer and started toward the ground and became more
disk shaped as it went down [note: the object could have
changed its orientation to the witness to "edge on" or the
change in shape could have been the result of atmospheric
conditions].
Page Two
Oak Harbor, Washington
UFO Report, January 28, 1988
It went down to the ground. I watched for another 5-10
minutes, when two lights appeared, over the land, at about the
same height in the sky, three-quarters the height of Ika
Island. Both lights turned perfectly round like an orange ball,
with halos, then they started down to the ground becoming disk
shaped about half way down to the ground. One went clear to the
ground, the other I could see the light of in the treetops of a
bushy area.
So they both disappeared from view. Meanwhile that big
thing always stayed there on the right with the three orange
lights and one red light on it. Another ten minutes or so went
by, while these lights on the one remaining object continued
getting brighter and dimmer. A strobe light flashed again, and
within 20-30 seconds started getting very bright--like the sun.
I could see the right end of the object illuminated by the
light, and it looked just like that [sketch, which shows half of
a small oval on top of half of a larger oval]. The light glowed
for maybe 30-40 seconds, and went out. As the light got dimmer,
there was a dull after-glow in the area, like the after-glow you
get from a TV screen after you turn off the set.
I sat for another half hour watching it. By this time it
was getting to be about 1:50 a.m. and the dull-glowing light was
still there but it wasn't doing anything so I decided to go to
bed. I set the alarm to go off at 3:00 a.m. to check on it. I
woke up at 2:45 a.m. before the alarm went off and looked, and
it was gone.
I had the feeling that when the strobe light went off and
five seconds later when the other two lights appeared that
something came out of that big thing and went over there. Maybe
when the strobe light flashed one more time they came off the
ground and went back in it or something. I saw 3 objects total,
and the one on the right was much bigger than the two on the
left. They appeared to be round balls as big as hot-air
balloons, looking through the binoculars. The distance across
[from Whidbey Island] to there is one and a half to two miles to
that flat area over the river there. I knew there shouldn't be
any houses there.
The next thing I thought was that maybe there was a fire up
on the foothills. When I got up the next morning the first
thing I did was use the spotting scope to look all over that
hillside and there hadn't been anything burning over there.
So I called MacIndoe because I'd read the newspaper article
about his sighting and that's what he said he saw--a round
orange ball, so what I saw must have been the same deal.
Page Three
Oak Harbor, Washington
UFO Report, January 28,
1988
I've got an airplane up in Anacortes. I'm a private
pilot. Three to four days later I flew my plane from Anacortes
on a bearing from my home right over the spot. There are a few
little cabins there by the river and a couple of farms back in
there behind La Conner. Other than that there is nothing in
there.
Preliminary rating:
Speiser Classification S4/P3
Berliner Coefficient 2 (night object) x 1 (single witness)
= 2.0
Prepared by Don Olson & Donald A. Johnson
File: OAKHARBR.UFO
6912-T
03-APR-88
Dir: 12 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
From: Donald Johnson
Acc:
7
Whidbey Island UFO #2 1/28/88