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UFO Sighting Report
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Oak Harbor, Washington
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January 28, 1988
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Principal Witness: Jerry Lang, age 45
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MUFON Field Investigator:
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Don Olson, Bothell, Washington
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Narrative:
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I ma
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rked the date down on the calendar. On midnight of the
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27th (or Thurs
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day morning, January 28th) I was heading home down
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my driveway when I saw these 4 lights off to the right of Ika
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Island. There was 3 oran
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ge lights and a red light. I saw the
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lights to the right of the islan
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d, over the mouth of the [North
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Fork of the] Skagit River [near the to
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wn of La Conner,
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Washington]. I thought, well, the Indians fish in th
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e river for
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Steelhead--gillnetting--and I thought, it must be somebody
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was
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missing and the Navy was out looking for them in a helicopter.
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So I hopped out of the car
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and ran in the house and grabbed my
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binoculars.
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I co
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uld see it was no helicopter and I could have heard it
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if it was becau
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se the next night one came by, and I could hear
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it from here to there.
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So then I put the spotting scope [45x]
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on it and I couldn't see very g
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ood with it because it was very
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fuzzy. I should have probably turned it down [it was set on the
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highest power], but I didn't think a
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bout it, you know. So I
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just grabbed my binoculars and started lookin
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g and I thought,
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well, maybe there are some houses there I don't know
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about, but
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I knew there were no houses in that direction.
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I watched for 10-15 minutes. The orange lights got
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brighter and dimme
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r while the red light stayed pretty much the
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same. I thought, "well, that sure is odd", and I kept
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trying to
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figure it out. I could also see a little bit of white light
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out
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of the bottom of it, like it was shining [a beam of light]
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down. I sat here watching the lights and it never did move [the
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witne
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ss had the impression that all of the lights were part of
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the same obj
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ect].
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All of a sudden a "strobe light" flashed on top of the
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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
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about ha
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lf as high as Ika Island. The light "just appeared". I
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didn't see it
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go over there, it just appeared there.
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It started getting b
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righter and dimmer; it got real bright
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and turned perfectly round, jus
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t like a fish egg or a balloon,
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and had a glow, a little halo all the way around it. Then t
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he
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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
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changed its
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orientation to the witness to "edge on" or the
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change in shape could h
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ave been the result of atmospheric
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conditions].
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Page Two
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Oak Harbor, Washington
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UFO Report, January 28, 1988
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It went down to the ground. I watched for another 5-10
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minutes, when two lights appeared, over the land, at about the
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same he
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ight in the sky, three-quarters the height of Ika
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Island. Both lights
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turned perfectly round like an orange ball,
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with halos, then they star
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ted down to the ground becoming disk
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shaped about half way down to the
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ground. One went clear to the
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ground, the other I could see the light of in the treetops of a
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bushy area.
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So they both disappeared from view. Mea
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nwhile that big
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thing always stayed there on the right with the three
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orange
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lights and one red light on it. Another ten minutes or so went
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by, while these lights on the one remaining object continued
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ge
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tting brighter and dimmer. A strobe light flashed again, and
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within 2
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0-30 seconds started getting very bright--like the sun.
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I could see th
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e right end of the object illuminated by the
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light, and it looked just
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like that [sketch, which shows half of
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a small oval on top of half of
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a larger oval]. The light glowed
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for maybe 30-40 seconds, and went ou
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t. As the light got dimmer,
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there was a dull after-glow in the area,
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like the after-glow you
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get from a TV screen after you turn off the set.
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I sat f
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or another half hour watching it. By this time it
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was getting to be a
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bout 1:50 a.m. and the dull-glowing light was
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still there but it wasn'
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t doing anything so I decided to go to
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bed. I set the alarm to go off
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at 3:00 a.m. to check on it. I
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woke up at 2:45 a.m. before the alarm
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went off and looked, and
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it was gone.
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I had the feeling that when the strobe light went off and
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five seconds later whe
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n the other two lights appeared that
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something came out of that big th
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ing and went over there. Maybe
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when the strobe light flashed one more
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time they came off the
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ground and went back in it or something. I saw
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3 objects total,
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and the one on the right was much bigger than the two
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on the
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left. They appeared to be round balls as big as hot-air
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balloons, looking through t
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he binoculars. The distance across
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[from Whidbey Island] to there is
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one and a half to two miles to
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that flat area over the river there. I
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knew there shouldn't be
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any houses there.
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The next t
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hing I thought was that maybe there was a fire up
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on the foothills. W
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hen I got up the next morning the first
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thing I did was use the spotting scope to look all over that
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hillside and there hadn't been anythi
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ng burning over there.
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So I called MacIndoe because I'd rea
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d the newspaper article
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about his sighting and that's what he said he
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saw--a round
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orange ball, so what I saw must have been the same deal.
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Page Three
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Oak Harbor, Washington
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UFO Report, January 28,
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1988
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I've got an airplane up in Anacortes. I'm a private
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p
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ilot. Three to four days later I flew my plane from Anacortes
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on a be
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aring from my home right over the spot. There are a few
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little cabins
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there by the river and a couple of farms back in
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there behind La Conne
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r. Other than that there is nothing in
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there.
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Pre
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liminary rating:
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Speiser Classification S4/P3
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Be
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rliner Coefficient 2 (night object) x 1 (single witness)
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= 2.0
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Prepared by Don Olson & Donald A. Johnson
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File: OAKHARBR.UFO
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6912-T
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03-APR-88
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Dir: 12 Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
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From: Donald Johnson
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Acc:
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Whidbey Island UFO #2 1/28/88
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