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- West Seattle, Washington UFO Report
- March 5, 1988
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- PART II: Narrative of second witness, female, age 33
- Transcribed from notes by Dr. Donald Johnson, March 13, 1988
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- [The first three paragraphs are a narrative from a phone
- interview with this witness on Friday, March 11th:]
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- While crossing the street with my boyfriend from a corner
- 24-hour convenience store we saw a huge, metallic
- spherical-shaped object surrounded by a bright blue light over
- the West Seattle golf course and Camp Long. The object was as
- wide as a football field is long. We heard a humming sound, and
- estimated it to be only 300 yards above the golf course.
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- We were nearly knocked down by a car because we were
- standing there in the middle of the street kind of mesmerized by
- the sight of such a strange object so close to the ground. The
- driver of the car pulled over and stopped. We watched the
- object together for about 30-40 seconds. It moved very quickly
- right, then left--in sort of a zig-zag--and then it was gone.
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- I'm in my thirties and I work as a transit operator for
- Metro [the regional bus system]. I've never seen anything like
- it despite driving buses late at night for many years. After
- the sighting we discussed the sighting with the other man and we
- decided not to report it. Later on I decided that we ought to
- report what we had seen to someone, and I looked up "UFO" in the
- white pages and found the number for the UFO Reporting Center
- and called it. I'm sorry now that the other witness drove away
- before we could get his name. We called to find out if anyone
- else had reported it and were surprised to hear that no one else
- had.
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- [Narrative from March 13, 1988:]
-
- I was still in the store when he saw the object from
- the sidewalk. I don't know how long he'd seen it before
- he yelled at me. But when he got my attention he pointed
- over in the golf course direction. I saw it when it first
- started to move. When it moved up, it moved sort of away. I
- guess east. The more we talked about it the more we felt that
- we should call somebody. I called the UFO Reporting Center late
- on Monday morning. I wanted confirmation that "yes, we did see
- this strange object, because other people saw it, too". He went
- down to the golf course, I just went home. I have a
- two-and-a-half-year-old and he was asleep in the car and I
- didn't want to get too close.
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- My parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and they have a
- religious interpretation for these things, they say that they
- are "spiritual manifestations" [Note: the notetaker missed some
- of what the parents' explanation was at this point, however, the
- gist of what she said was that she was skeptical of her parents'
- interpretation.]
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