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- UFO Sighting Report
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- Oak Harbor, Washington
- January 28, 1988
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- Principal Witness: Jerry Lang, age 45
- MUFON Field Investigator:
- Don Olson, Bothell, Washington
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- Narrative:
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- I ma
- rked the date down on the calendar. On midnight of the
- 27th (or Thurs
- day 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 oran
- ge lights and a red light. I saw the
- lights to the right of the islan
- d, over the mouth of the [North
- Fork of the] Skagit River [near the to
- wn of La Conner,
- Washington]. I thought, well, the Indians fish in th
- e 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 co
- uld see it was no helicopter and I could have heard it
- if it was becau
- se 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 g
- ood 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 a
- bout it, you know. So I
- just grabbed my binoculars and started lookin
- g 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 dimme
- r 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
- witne
- ss had the impression that all of the lights were part of
- the same obj
- ect].
-
- All of a sudden a "strobe light" flashed on top of the
- thing. Five to ten seconds later a single light appeared to the
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- left. Off to the left, where the little hill is in there, up
- about ha
- lf as high as Ika Island. The light "just appeared". I
- didn't see it
- go over there, it just appeared there.
-
- It started getting b
- righter and dimmer; it got real bright
- and turned perfectly round, jus
- t like a fish egg or a balloon,
- and had a glow, a little halo all the way around it. Then t
- he
- light got dimmer and started toward the ground and became more
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- 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 h
- ave been the result of atmospheric
- conditions].
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- Page Two
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- Oak Harbor, Washington
- UFO Report, January 28, 1988
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- It went down to the ground. I watched for another 5-10
-
- minutes, when two lights appeared, over the land, at about the
- same he
- ight in the sky, three-quarters the height of Ika
- Island. Both lights
- turned perfectly round like an orange ball,
- with halos, then they star
- ted 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. Mea
- nwhile 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
- ge
- tting brighter and dimmer. A strobe light flashed again, and
- within 2
- 0-30 seconds started getting very bright--like the sun.
- I could see th
- e 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 ou
- t. 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 f
- or another half hour watching it. By this time it
- was getting to be a
- bout 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 whe
- n the other two lights appeared that
- something came out of that big th
- ing 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 t
- he 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 t
- hing I thought was that maybe there was a fire up
- on the foothills. W
- hen 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 anythi
- ng burning over there.
-
- So I called MacIndoe because I'd rea
- d 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.
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- Page Three
- Oak Harbor, Washington
- UFO Report, January 28,
- 1988
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-
- I've got an airplane up in Anacortes. I'm a private
- p
- ilot. Three to four days later I flew my plane from Anacortes
- on a be
- aring 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 Conne
- r. Other than that there is nothing in
- there.
-
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- Pre
- liminary rating:
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- Speiser Classification S4/P3
- Be
- rliner Coefficient 2 (night object) x 1 (single witness)
- = 2.0
-
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- Prepared by Don Olson & Donald A. Johnson
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- File: OAKHARBR.UFO
- 6912-T
- 03-APR-88
- Dir: 12 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
- From: Donald Johnson
- Acc:
- 7
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- Whidbey Island UFO #2 1/28/88
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