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West Seattle, Washington UFO Report
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March 5, 1988
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PART II: Narrative of second witness, female, age 33
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Transcribed from notes by Dr. Donald Johnson, March 13, 1988
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[The first three paragraphs are a narrative from a phone
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interview with this witness on Friday, March 11th:]
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While crossing the street with my boyfriend from a corner
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24-hour convenience store we saw a huge, metallic
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spherical-shaped object surrounded by a bright blue light over
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the West Seattle golf course and Camp Long. The object was as
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wide as a football field is long. We heard a humming sound, and
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estimated it to be only 300 yards above the golf course.
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We were nearly knocked down by a car because we were
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standing there in the middle of the street kind of mesmerized by
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the sight of such a strange object so close to the ground. The
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driver of the car pulled over and stopped. We watched the
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object together for about 30-40 seconds. It moved very quickly
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right, then left--in sort of a zig-zag--and then it was gone.
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I'm in my thirties and I work as a transit operator for
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Metro [the regional bus system]. I've never seen anything like
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it despite driving buses late at night for many years. After
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the sighting we discussed the sighting with the other man and we
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decided not to report it. Later on I decided that we ought to
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report what we had seen to someone, and I looked up "UFO" in the
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white pages and found the number for the UFO Reporting Center
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and called it. I'm sorry now that the other witness drove away
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before we could get his name. We called to find out if anyone
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else had reported it and were surprised to hear that no one else
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had.
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[Narrative from March 13, 1988:]
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I was still in the store when he saw the object from
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the sidewalk. I don't know how long he'd seen it before
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he yelled at me. But when he got my attention he pointed
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over in the golf course direction. I saw it when it first
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started to move. When it moved up, it moved sort of away. I
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guess east. The more we talked about it the more we felt that
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we should call somebody. I called the UFO Reporting Center late
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on Monday morning. I wanted confirmation that "yes, we did see
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this strange object, because other people saw it, too". He went
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down to the golf course, I just went home. I have a
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two-and-a-half-year-old and he was asleep in the car and I
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didn't want to get too close.
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My parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and they have a
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religious interpretation for these things, they say that they
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are "spiritual manifestations" [Note: the notetaker missed some
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of what the parents' explanation was at this point, however, the
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gist of what she said was that she was skeptical of her parents'
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interpretation.]
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