SUBJECT: SEATTLE SIGHTINGS                                   FILE: UFO2368


PART 2

                     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.]



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