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- UFO Sighting Report
- West Seattle, Washington
- March 13, 1988, Sunday, 1:55 AM
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- by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D.
- MUFON Washington State Direct
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- Narrative by Mr. N (name on file with MUFON),
- age 26, witness:
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- I was coming back with a friend from a trip to eastern Washington,
- and I dropped him 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 on its side; its manuevers were so
- weird. I saw 3 lights going around and around. It was low, maybe 500
- feet up.
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- Q. Did your friend see the object too?
- No. My friend was asleep in the car and he had had a long trip
- so I didn't want to wake him. He was pretty sleepy when I dropped him
- off so I didn't mention seeing the UFO.
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- 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 light 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.
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- Q. What were you doing when you first saw the object?
- I was driving on 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 after it passes Duwamish
- Head]. I couldn't see it again until I drove up the hill 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 it 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 colors, 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 basically 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.
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- 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 manuevers. 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 for 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 the 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 circular 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 monitor
- [oscilloscope].
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- Q. How did you lose sight of it?
- Once I drove into the park I could see it and then it was gone.
- Like it disappeared. That really surprised me. I was thinking,
- "Where the hell did it go?"
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- Q. How much sleep had you had?
- Well, I had slept for 3 hours at a rest area. We left 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: ALKI.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.