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   SUBJECT: UFO SEATTLE SIGHTING, WITNESS #2, 3/88              FILE: UFO1199   
      
   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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