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West Seattle, Washington UFO Report
March 5, 1988
PART II: Narrative of second witness, female, age 33
Transcribed from notes by Dr. Donald Johnson, March 13, 1988
[The first three paragraphs are a narrative from a phone
interview with this witness on Friday, March 11th:]
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.]