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- UFO Sighting Report
- West S
- eattle, Washington
- March 13, 1988, Sunday, 1:55 AM
-
- by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D.
- MUFON Washington State Direct
- or
-
- Narrative by Mr. N (name on file with MUFON), age 26, witness:
-
- I was
- coming back with a friend from a trip to eastern Washington,
- and I dropped h
- im off on California Way and the north end of Alki
- looking towards the North
- [across Elliott Bay toward Magnolia] when I
- saw this object. The object was o
- n its side; its manuevers were so
- weird. I saw 3 lights going around and ar
- ound. It was low, maybe 500
- feet up.
-
- Q. Did your friend see the object
- too?
-
- No. My friend was asleep in the car and he had had a long trip
- s
- o I didn't want to wake him. He was pretty sleepy when I dropped him
- off so
- I didn't mention seeing the UFO.
-
- Q. What did the object look like?
-
- It
- was on its side, like a plate on its side. I'd seen it when
- it turned, like a frisbee, it
- went up and down, around and around, and
- then up and down. It was a very li
- ght night that night. The moon
- might have been out. [The moon was in fact
- out and was in its last
- quarter.] The stars were really bright that night.
-
-
- Q. What were you doing when you first saw the object?
-
- I was driving o
- n I-5, and I had just exited and was driving across
- the West Seattle bridge,
- when I first saw the object. I saw it again
- when I drove up California Way from Alki
- Drive [actually this highway
- is Harbor Way, the road becomes Alki Avenue aft
- er it passes Duwamish
- Head]. I couldn't see it again until I drove up the h
- ill on
- California Way because of the trees. After I dropped off my friend I
-
- stopped at the park [Hamilton Viewpoint Park] but by the time I got
- there i
- t had vanished.
-
- It had green, red, and violet lights. The green and red
- lights
- were more visible but the other light looked like it was mixed with
- the other colo
- rs, kind of soft like. The object was darker than the
- background, what with
- the reflection from the lights along the outline
- of the Sound. It was basic
- ally a dark shape with lights. It was out
- over Puget Sound, closer to Alki
- than to Magnolia. It was on its
- side, up about 500 feet.
-
- Q. What was your
- first reaction to seeing the object?
-
- I was trying to determine if it was
- an airplane or a helicopter
- but even a helicopter couldn't make those kind of manue
- vers. First it
- made a sideways step motion: sideways then forward, sideway
- s then
- forward, sideways then forward. Then it bounced up and down like a
-
- basketball. Then it repeated the step motion three more times,
- followed by
- the up-and-down motion like a basketball. It never
- repeated this sequence f
- or the same length of time. It made it look
- like a streak in the air, like
- a welding torch in color. It was disk
- or plate shaped, and seemed thin.
-
- It also stopped, in t
- he air, sideways, and I could see the lights
- going around the rim (3 lights)
- . Whenever it bounced like a
- basketball the lights stopped moving in a circ
- ular motion. Then it would
- turn on its side and move in the step motion. I
- would guess that its
- width was about a car length (a small import car). The
- motion it made
- really looked like the "blip" tracings you see on a heart mon
- itor
- [oscilloscope].
-
- Q. How did you lose sight of it?
-
- Once I drove into t
- he park I could see it and then it was gone.
- Like it disappeared. That rea
- lly surprised me. I was thinking,
- "Where the hell did it go?"
-
- Q. How much
- sleep had you had?
-
- Well, I had slept for 3 hours at a rest area. We lef
- t eastern
- Washington at 3 p.m. We had stopped along the way so we had had a
- 5-6
- hour drive plus sleeping. The trip took a total of 11 hours.
-
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- File: AL
- KI.UFO 3968-T
- 03-APR-88
- Dir: 12 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
- From: Donald Johnson
- Acc:
- 8
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- Erratic Motion UFO seen in Alki, Wash.
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