SKETCH OF REAR OF OBJECT PREPARED BY WITNESS.
Description: I had gone out to look for shooting stars that night. I went to close my gate and then go in. It was about 12:10 AM. As I turned around I saw what I first thought was a jet plane. However, after a few seconds I realized it was too low and moving way too slow and it made no sound. The craft was moving north. It seemed to be following 51ST ST NE. It was probably between 500 feet to 1,000 feet above the ground. It was very large and was moving about as fast as someone running. The craft was similar to a thick silver wing with two large lights that looked like jet engines with the after-burners on. These round areas with lights looked to be slightly angled inward. There was a white-blue flashing light centered on it’s belly. No thrust seemed to be coming from the lights. There were no obvious signs of propulsion that I could see. I watched for about 30 seconds and then ran in the house and grabbed my binoculars and came back outside in about 5 seconds and continued to watch for a couple minutes. I decided to provoke it, so I ran inside again and grabbed my green laser pointer and came back outside in about 5 seconds and this time it was gone. I am positive this one will show up on radar. It was big and moving slow. Note to Commenters: If you are reporting a sighting, be sure to include the location (city, state, country), date and time of your sighting. Be detailed in your description. You may also use our report form to report your sighting. Comments will only be published if they are in "good taste" and not inflammatory. Also the name that you list in the comment will be posted. Use abbreviations or aliases if you don't want your name listed.
In his 1952 book THE COMING OF THE SAUCERS, pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw nine silvery UFOs or flying saucers in a line 5 miles long near Mount Rainier, Washington, 50 miles south of Seattle, on June 24, 1947. A United Air Lines crew also saw nine similar saucers near Boise, Idaho, on July 4, 1947. In his 1967 book REPORT ON THE UFO WAVE OF 1947, Ted Bloecher showed a photo of a white oval UFO over Seattle on July 4, 1947, taken by Frank Ryman. On July 4, 1947, I may have seen one of Arnold’s nine saucers over Seattle. Arnold said there was a wide space between UFO 4 and UFO 5. In 2012, I discovered on my World Atlas illustration of the nine solar system planets that there is a wide space between 4th planet Mars and 5th planet Jupiter–as if Arnold’s nine 1947 UFOs represented a scale model of our nine planet solar system.
Ken:
You are a walking encyclopedia when it comes to UFO history (and experiences). Thanks for the input.
If this person hasn’t min-percieved a normal aircraft (-as I have done before!), then this is a most intruiging report! I recall that there was a report filed either in the British Isles or Germany by some miitary pilots a couple of years ago who were on patrol over the North Sea area when their patrol encountered at close range some “unknown type of aircraft” that, like this witness, noted this aircraft had some blue light sources, but the craft was of an unknown configuration and the pilots were at a loss to identify it. I think that they even tried to communicate with it’s crew, and called into ground control to ask about any unmentioned test aircraft in their flight area, but were told their were none. I attempted to track down that report, but could never find out just where their report was filed. Anyway, I wonder if our present witness has seen one such ‘unknown aircraft’.
Yes, perhaps the Marysville craft was similar to this craft.