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6.6 KiB
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119 lines
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SUBJECT: CLOSE ENCOUNTER AT OLD NIKE MISSLE BASE FILE: UFO1173
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UNUSUAL REPORT OF A UFO AND A GREEN-FACED ENTITY
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SEEN NEAR AN OLD U.S.A.F. NIKE MISSLE BASE
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DATE: June 24, 1988
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TIME: Sometime between 12:30 and 2:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
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LOCATION: Redmond, Washington
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DURATION: Estimates vary, around 7 minutes for sighting of UFO;
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about 45 minutes total duration including sighting of
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face, possibly longer
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SOURCE OF SIGHTING: UFO Information Service (Goudie)
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INVESTIGATORS: Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D., MUFON
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Don Olson, MUFON
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Rita Andreeva, MUFON
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Four 11-year-old girls who had attended a private Christian
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elementary school together were having a slumber party reunion at the
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home of one of the girls on Education Hill in Redmond, Washington. At
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a few minutes after either 12:30 AM or 1:30 AM they were looking out
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the window to see if they could find the girl's dog. They were
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downstairs in the TV room, while the parents and brother and sister of
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the host were asleep upstairs. They witnessed a craft-like UFO,
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described as either a domed-disc or two plates put together edge-to-
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edge, hovering in the night sky. It had white and red lights and
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possibly faint green lights around the rim of the object. Of the two
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girls interviewed, both thought right away that it was a UFO (i.e.
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"spacecraft"), and not an aircraft because it was similar to a picture
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they had once seen in a book.
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The UFO was hovering at about 30 degrees above the horizon when
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first sighted. It was described as smaller than a house in size,
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possibly 25 feet in diameter. The UFO moved to the right horizontally
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about 10 degrees, reversed direction abruptly and moved back in a
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straight line to the left 10 degrees, moved back to the right 5
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degrees to a center position, and then moved really fast straight
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down. It moved down behind some tall evergreen trees and the girls
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thought that it probably came down in a clearing in Nike Park, about
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3-4 blocks from the girl's home where they were staying. The UFO was
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reported to be visible through the window of the TV room for a total
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of between 2 and 7 minutes.
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Some time later, within 15 minutes to a half an hour, two of the
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girls witnessed a frightening face. The accounts of how the face
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appeared to them varies. In one account the girls thought they saw
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something like a shadow or a figure at the top of the stairs leading
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up to the kitchen. The became scared and hid in their sleeping bags;
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they zipped them over their heads and lay next to each other. They
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conversed through the bags and agreed to look at the same time, so
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that it would not be too scary. As they pulled the bags down from
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over their heads they saw a dark, mossy green face only about arm's
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length away. Really frightened, one of the girls pulled the sleeping
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bag over her head, and when she looked out again in a few minutes, the
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being was gone. The other girl's account said they were lying on
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their backs trying to get to sleep and staring up at the ceiling when
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all of a sudden they both saw this green face. She watched it for
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about 45 seconds, "and then it just, went away". Asked if it just
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vanished like it was a slide from a projector or something, she said,
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no, it wasn't like that. It was just like a real face, but it was
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green in color and it was looking at them. The second girl appears to
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be unclear about how the face appeared because she also reports she
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covered her head with the sleeping bag at one point but can't remember
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when.
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The face was described as greenish in hue, with red, glowing
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eyes. Interviewed separately, both of the girls said there was
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something like a dent in one of the cheeks. One girl said it looked
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like the "face on Mars" photograph she saw in the newspaper about a
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week later, while the other girl said it had pointy ears and bushy
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eyebrows. When asked a direct question later about the pointed ears,
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the second girl said she didn't remember any ears. If the face had
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indeed been attached to a body, one girl figures that the being must
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have been about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall.
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About 10 to 15 minutes later the second girl, who lived there,
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saw a clump of rainbow colored lights slowly revolving in her kitchen
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and flashing light all over the ceiling and refrigerator. The first
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girl made a vague reference to lights in the kitchen but apparently
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did not see the rainbow-colored clump of lights hovering in the
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kitchen (the kitchen is partially visible from the TV room, up half a
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flight of stairs).
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The girls became noisy discussing what they had seen woke the
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mother. The mother came down and ordered them to go to sleep.
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Apparently nothing further happened that night.
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Of the other two girls, they are certain that one saw what they
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saw but would not consent to be interviewed by UFO investigators.
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They are unsure what the fourth girl saw. The second girl, the one at
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whose home the events occurred, reported that she had had a
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precognitive experience during that previous day, recalling during a
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croquet match that she had dreamed those exact events some weeks
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before. She also reports that since the UFO incident she is no longer
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subject to nose bleeds, which she reports have occurred to her
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chronically throughout her life and also occur with her father. She
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also said that a soccer injury to her knee no longer gave her any pain
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after the encounter, and she attributes the healing to the event.
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The neighborhood in which her home is located borders an old Air
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Force Nike Missle base. Part of the property is now a Washington
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State National Guard facility, part of it is deserted and belongs to
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the local school district, and part of it has been converted to a
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park. We talked to a staff sargent on the National Guard base who
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reported that he was sleeping at the base on the night in question and
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recalls nothing unusual. He reported that light aircraft tend to use
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the base as a landmark and so overflights are frequent, and, during
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the daytime hours, hot air balloons frequently come over the base from
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the Sammamish River valley to land in some clearings to the east.
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