1990: Port Angeles, Washington

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: September, 1990

Sighting Time: 11:30 p.m.

Day/Night: Night

Location: Port Angeles, Washington

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) 

Duration: at least twenty minutes

No. of Object(s): 1

Size of Object(s): 100+ feet across

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): triangular

Color of Object(s): black and white lights

Number of Witnesses: 2

Source: MUFON

Summary: Silent craft gliding slowly overhead with alternating white lights that appeared to be situated at three corners of a triangle-shaped ship with one possible light in the middle of the craft that was brighter and able to rotate around. It was as dark, clear, calm evening and my husband and I were in our hot tub in our backyard. First thought to be an airplane, we noticed that it was moving extremely slow, at times not at all, and it made no sound and the lights were alternating and appeared to be searching for something. 

Full Report

Drawing by the witness.

My now ex-husband and I were sitting out in our hot tub late one evening. It was very clear. We lived in a rural location just east of Port Angeles, Washington, just off Highway 101 on 3.4 acres of land. The surrounding property was also rural and owned by my husbands family. At that time, there were no commercial properties around our land. The stars were countless and you could even see the Milky Way. The night was very calm with no wind and there was no moon. We had no jets or bubbles going and the only sound was a slight hum from the heater in the hot tub. We had no exterior lights on as we used to enjoy star gazing from our backyard spa. And you could barely hear the light traffic from the highway about 1/4 of a mile away. As we sat gazing up at the stars, we saw what we thought, at first, was an airplane. This was not uncommon as Port Angeles has an international airport on the west side of the city. But soon, we noticed that this airplane was moving very, very slowly and it made no sound. We both commented on this and we waited for it to start making a normal airplane sound. That never happened. As we sat watching this craft, it flew from north to south across the sky. It never made a sound the entire time we witnessed it! This craft took at least twenty minutes to cross the entire sky and then when it got close to the Olympic Mountain Range to our south it shot off at a unusually high rate of speed. As the craft hovered slowly toward us, it had at least three white lights that appeared to be at the corners of it’s triangle shape.

We could see the outline of it because it blocked out the stars where it’s mass was. Its lights seemed to change from one corner to another in a way that I can’t explain. Only one light would be on at a time but it seemed that the lights would alternately come on and go off…for lack of a better explanation…without detection. The craft also not discernibly seemed to move back and forth as it moved forward…again…without detection. Then, as it hovered over the top of us, it seemed that a light in the center of the craft rotated slowly around and then alighted on us. We both just sat there unable or unwilling to move. It was quite eerie! We both felt a strange sensation while the light was on us that we were visible and even ‘scanned’ or something by the occupant(s) of the craft. It is impossible to describe the feeling we both had. I am much more open-minded and enlightened than my ‘ex’, but even he felt somehow as if there was something extra-sensory about our experience that night. The light stayed on us for about 10 seconds and then the craft continued on in its slow, methodical survey. Neither of us spoke or moved for quite some time. We just watched this thing hover slowly off to the south and then it shot off over the mountains.

We both agreed immediately that this was not any type of aircraft that we had ever seen or even heard about before. We still, to this day, swear that this was a UFO and most likely not of this world. We were not using any mind-altering drugs or drinking alcohol. My ex-husband and I are both respectable members of our community. It was an eerie incident and it changed both of our beliefs about extra-terrestrial life and the knowledge that we are definitely not alone in this huge universe!