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Drawing of Craft As Sighted Over
Boeing Field Airport
Date of Sighting: November, 1993
(Exact Date Unknown)
Time of Sighting: 9:30 PM PST
Date Reported: February 24, 2006
Duration of Sighting: Several Minutes
Location of Sighting: Seattle Washington (Near Boeing Field
Airport)
Latitude: 47.6 Degrees North
Longitude: 122.3 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: One
Weather: Cloudy. (Height of Clouds Not Known.)
Description (In Witness's Own Words):
CLOSE ENCOUNTER with the BLACK TRIANGLE UFO
The following is a true and accurate account of my close encounter
in Seattle Washington which occurred in 1993. I believe it was in
the month of November. It was a Sunday night about 9:30. I often had
occasion to be driving north about that time of evening on Sundays
and I usually took the I-5 freeway. This time, however, I knew the
freeway, northbound, was jammed up due to an accident. So I took an
alternate route which eventually led me to what I think was East
Marginal Way, right next to the main Boeing Aircraft facility in
Seattle. As I was traveling, northbound, I noticed three red lights
low in the sky ahead of me and to my right. They were moving in
unison, very slowly across my field of vision from east to west. At
first I thought they must be the lights of a low flying plane,
perhaps about to land. Then I thought, no, they must be helicopters
because a plane, even if it was landing, wouldn't be moving that
slowly. The trouble was, I couldn't actually see the craft or crafts
that the lights were attached to. They were, maybe, a half mile
ahead of me, about 30 degrees to my right. Normally, I wouldn't have
paid much attention to this because I'd been making that Sunday
night drive past Boeing (although via the freeway) for twelve years.
This is also not too far from the Sea-Tac Airport. In all that time
I'd seen plenty of airplanes and helicopters flying low in this
area. But something was different this time. It took me a minute to
realize what it was. It was the fact that the lights weren't
blinking. I thought that was odd. It seemed to me every airplane or
helicopter I've ever seen flying at night had blinking lights. I
squinted my eyes as I drove toward the lights, trying to see just
what I was actually looking at. Although I was now only about two
blocks away from being directly under the flight path of these
lights, I still could not make out what they were attached to.
However, from their slow, steady movement, in unison, I was pretty
sure all three of them were attached to a single object rather than
being independent of each other. By the time I was directly in line
with their flight path, they were about to enter the airspace above
Boeing Field to my immediate left. At this point I was convinced it
was a single, low-flying craft of some kind and I knew there was
something very odd here. I pulled my car off to the side of the road
and rolled down the window to get a better look. But the craft was
now directly overhead so I had to get out of the car to see it. I
opened the car door and stepped out. Craning my neck to see the
craft as it passed slowly directly over my head at an estimated
altitude of less than 500 feet (Note: at the actual time of the
sighting my impression was that the craft was perhaps only about 150
feet above me) I could see it was a gigantic black triangle. There
is no other way to describe it because that's precisely what it was;
a huge, black, triangle; not just "sort of" triangular shaped, like
one of those stealth jets I'd seen photos of. It was just one big,
three-sided, cookie-cutter-straight-edged, black, geometric shape; a
triangle with one large, round unblinking red light at each of its
three corners, flat up against the underside of the craft. There was
a high, gray cloud cover that evening, subtly lit by the Seattle
city lights in the distance. I could clearly with no obstructions
see the object like a huge, dense black silhouette against this gray
ceiling. I stood there almost not believing what I knew I was
seeing. I actually said to myself, Ok. What, exactly, are you
seeing? You're going to want to remember every detail of this! Just
the facts, now. What, exactly, do you see? I made a mental
inventory. Black triangle. Red light on each corner, flat up against
the underside of the craft. They don't blink. ...(Note: at this
point it has proceeded on past me and was now over Boeing field)
...It looks like it's about seventy-five to a hundred feet above one
of the main Boeing hangars. It's moving very slowly. Maybe five
miles per hour. It's heading west. It appears to be about the size
of a football field. Suddenly I realized, as I stood there in the
dark on this quiet empty street, the object didn't make a sound!
Maybe more than anything else, that's what made the whole thing so
eerie. Something that huge, that close, moving through the air at a
snail's pace should be making some kind of a sound. A hum. A rumble.
Anything. But, no. It just moved across the sky like something out
of a Steven Spielberg movie with the volume turned off. I looked up
and down the street to see if anyone else was witnessing this silent
event, but the street was dark and empty in both directions. It
occurred to me, however, that the thing had just passed directly
over hundreds of cars on the freeway which was only a few miles east
of where I was standing. I looked up again at the mysterious craft
now blending into the dark horizon. I watched it until I couldn't
see it anymore and then it was over.
Addendum: The weekend following my
sighting (referenced above), I told my ex-wife about it. We're on
good terms and I was either picking up my son for a weekend visit or
returning him. I can't recall which. In any case, her response to
what I told her was rather shocking but it may be significant to
note that she has no interest in the UFO phenomenon and is not prone
to making up such stories "off the cuff". She works as a cocktail
waitress and has conversations with many people during the course of
her work. She told me that one of her customers, a Boeing employee,
told her that there was an underground manufacturing facility
located somewhere on the Boeing property where they were building a
huge, triangular craft. Supposedly this was a "secret" underground
facility that no one was really supposed to know about. I asked her
what else he told her but, having no real interest in such things
and being very busy that evening, she didn't bother to ask any
questions or in any way follow up on the conversation. As I recall,
she didn't know who this fellow was as he was apparently not one of
the "regulars". I don't know if this story has any merit or not but
I did find it very curious, especially coming from her and
especially since I did see the craft cruise slowly, directly over
the Boeing manufacturing plant. Also of interest is the fact that
Boeing made big news in 2002 when a story hit the press that they
were experimenting with anti-gravity propulsion. Later, however,
they denied it. I recall, however, that some researcher (I think it
may have been Bill Hamilton) actually saw a 45 page document from
Boeing pertaining to the anti-gravity research. It occurred to me at
the time of the sighting that the craft seemed much too big to be
able to cruise that slowly without just falling to the ground. In
fact it's more accurately descriptive to say it was "floating"
rather than flying. In any case, as I said, My ex-wife not only has
no interest in such matters, she's also not one to come up with such
imaginative tales on the spur of the moment. She was quite serious
when she related this incident to me. Again, this was back in
November of 1993. So just what did I see? Was it an alien craft? A
secret military craft? I don't know. We'll just have to file it into
the "Gray Basket" as Stanton Friedman is fond of saying.
Investigator's Notes: The witness has
made some very accurate and detailed observations in his sighting
report. He is quite clearly familiar with conventional
aircraft and has presented a clear argument that what he saw was not
a conventional flying aircraft. He is an artist and his
drawing shows that this is a characteristic type of triangular
object that is frequently sighted. (Most of these sightings
are at night.) This sighting falls in the "unidentified category."
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