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   SUBJECT: UFO SEATTLE SIGHTING, WITNESS #1, 3/88              FILE: UFO1198   
      
   PART 1   
      
      
                         West Seattle, Washington UFO Report   
                               Saturday, March 5, 1988   
      
         PART I:     Narrative of principal witness, male, age 43   
            Transcribed from notes by Dr. Donald Johnson, March 13, 1988   
            
              At approximately 9:30 p.m. I left the ARCO convenience    
         store at the southwest corner of Fauntleroy and SW Alaska St.    
         and noticed the object while facing east.  It was "sitting"    
         [hovering] over towards the golf course and club house.  I live    
         on Fauntleroy and Dawson, about 4 blocks south of Fauntleroy and    
         Alaska.  I looked at it, then looked away then back for about 3    
         or 4 seconds.  It wasn't sitting on the ground, but if it had it    
         would have crushed the clubhouse, because it would have been    
         right over it.  [Later at the clubhouse he revised this comment    
         to say that it was probably not over the clubhouse but in a    
         clearing between the highway and the golf course to the right of    
         the clubhouse--an area some 500 yards long and 100 yards wide.     
         It is important to note that if the UFO had been near the ground    
         in this area it would have been hidden from view to the south by    
         trees, to the north by the West Seattle high school stadium, and    
         from 35th S.W. by a hill.]  It was huge--I don't know what a    
         "mothership" is (we get our terminology from TV), but it was    
         like a mothership, it was big.   
            
              [Later at the intersection he described the size of the    
         object as stretching from a rotating motel sign on the left to a    
         tall evergreen tree on the right, a distance that would be    
         covered by 3 inches of a ruler held at arm's length.  His    
         estimate on the report form that the apparent size of the object    
         was as large as a 12" ruler held at arm's length was therefore    
         an exaggeration.]   
            
              I shouted back and called [his girlfriend's] attention to it.      
         It moved to the left, then to the right, then it moved away and up    
         until it was out of sight.   
            
              While we were watching it we stood in the middle of the    
         intersection and nearly got run over by two or three cars.  One    
         guy who almost hit me honked and said, "are you nuts?", and I    
         said, "no man, look at that".  He stopped and said "is someone    
         hurt" and then he saw the object.  He saw it while it was in    
         motion.  We watched it until the damn thing disappeared.  The    
         other witness--a guy 25 to 30 years old, heavy build with a    
         blond mustache, 5'9 to 5'11, well dressed in sweater and    
         slacks--said, "somebody's playing a joke, right?", and I said,    
         "No, I've been watching it for about 30 seconds."   
            
              I didn't hear anything like a hum or a buzz like you would    
         get from an airplane.  There was nothing.  [When questioned    
         about his note on the sketch made earlier that said "humming    
         sound":]  I heard a humming sound like the electric [cooling]    
         fan on a car after the engine is turned off, but it was probably    
         the car of the guy who stopped.  I'm almost sure the sound    
         didn't come from the object.   
            
              The other guy said he was on his way to Jake O'Shaunnessy's    
         Restaurant to meet someone and had to get going.  I said I was    
         going to go down to the golf course and check that out.  I went    
         down to the clubhouse parking lot, there were only two cars    
         there, parked in front of the clubhouse.  I didn't see anything    
         more unusual there.  The stadium lights were on at the West    
         Seattle High stadium there at the park.   
            
              The first thing I thought when I saw it was that it was a    
         carbon arc [searchlight], and I was looking around first for a    
         carbon-arc searchlight to see if there was some source of the    
         light.  I used to be a projectionist and used to work on the    
         carbon arc.  You could project the pictures on the clouds with    
         one of those things if you wanted to.  But it was definitely a    
         physical object.   
            
         [Asked about the weather conditions that night:]  There was a    
         full moon that night.  The moon looked huge that night.  It was    
         clear, there were sparse clouds but not "en masse" so you    
         couldn't see the sky.   
            
              I hadn't been drinking and I don't do any drugs.   
            
         [Asked about his line of work:]  I run a shoe repair concession    
         with two other men in the Nordstrom's Men Shoe department, and    
         I'm a part-time musician (percussion and piano).   
            
         [Asked about his familiarity with UFO literature:]  We saw the    
         Betty and Barney Hill movie, I used to watch a TV series in the    
         '60s called Project Blue Book, one of my favorite movies is "The    
         Day the Earth Stood Still", and I read Shirley MacLaine's book    
         "Out on a Limb".   
            
         [Asked about a description of the object:]  The object was    
         metallic blue color.  It was shaped like this [makes an ellipse    
         in the air with his two hands], but it wasn't flat like you    
         would think a flying saucer should be.  It had greenish yellow    
         lights in a row--six of them the same size.  There were three    
         rings of rotating white light:  the one on the left was rotating    
         counter-clockwise and the one on the right was rotating    
         clockwise and the one on the bottom was probably rotating    
         clockwise.  It had a blue thing on top like the radar detector    
         on an AWAC aircraft.  It may not have been attached.   
      
      
                    
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