2004: Triangular craft moves quietly over Seattle

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: June 20, 2004

Sighting Time: about 11:00 and 11:15 pm

Day/Night: Night

Location: Seattle, Washington

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration: 3 seconds

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s): about the size of 3/4 full moon

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): Triangle

Color of Object(s): black leading edge, and lighter gray color inboard, with dim white lights at each corner of the lighter gray surface

Number of Witnesses: 2

Source: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) Source

Summary: I was talking to my wife and daughter when I tilted my head back to stretch, and this triangular shape craft was moving from south to north direction, quietly, without much effort. I witnessed it for about 3 seconds, then it went behind the house and I lost contact.

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beautiful triangular craft moves quietly over Seattle

I was out in front of my daughter’s home in Seattle on June 20th, about 11:15 pm the summer solstice in full effect, so the sky was illuminated dimly, clear sky. I was talking to my wife and daughter when I tilted my head back to stretch, and this triangular shape craft was moving from south to north direction, quietly, without much effort. I witnessed it for about 3 seconds, then it went behind the house and I lost contact.

It was triangular in shape with a black leading edge, and lighter gray color inboard, with dim white lights at each corner of the lighter gray surface, I don,t know whats its elevation was, but I could see very good detail, about the size of 3/4 full moon. This machine was mechanically and materially beautiful, I have seen up close and in flight, all kinds of aircraft, F-14s, F-15 Eagles, F-16 Falcons, B-1s, B-2s, B-52s, B-58 hustlers, SR-71s, but this craft sent chills up my spine, because of its triangular shape, mechanical and composite beauty. I do believe this is very similar to the Belgium sightings in the 1990s that I have seen and read about. I knew what it was the second I saw it.

(NUFORC Note: We met with the individual, and found him to be exceptionally credible. PD)

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A second sighting over Seattle, which allegedly had occurred 14 minutes earlier, was reported by another adult male. This witness, also, seemed to us to be exceptionally lucid and objective in his description of the alleged sighting. Here is the second report:

High Flight Speed Star Bright Lit Object Flying Toward Boeing Field Making Sharp Turns Then South Of It and to Renton Field

At 11:00 pm on Sunday, 6-20-04, approximately one-half mile before the W. Marginal Way exit, while driving north on highway 509 coming down the hill toward the First Avenue Bridge, I saw a medium-sized star bright-lit object above me, about the altitude of 10K feet, moving from my left to my right as an extremely high rate of speed. It flew in an extremely straight line of flight direction with no slight movement, but with great accuracy in one direction. It was flying downward at a slant toward the north end of Boeing Field just a tad before it reached that field where it made, in less than 1 second, an approximate 100-degree south-southerly turn, the white starlight dropping down, like in a bank turn, to then quickly upward in a steady rise to leveling out going south toward the south end of Boeing Field, it’s speed dropping maybe 10-15 percent after that first turn.

It then began to drop lower downward and slowing to about 50 percent less speed, going into a soft rounded south-west-westerly bank turn, the light dropping to the right downward then leveling up and out, for a distance of about one-fifth of a mile, then another similar sharp turn but to a sharp north-north-easterly direction for about the same distance, the light moving upward to the left and then leveling out, then another similar turn south-south-westerly for the same distance, the light moving down to the right and then leveling out, and then one more such turn but wider into a north-east-easterly direction, the light moving to the left upward and then leveling out, where it then flew out of sight past the hill to the west of the Boeing Renton airfield.

I could not make out the shape of the object the light was attached to, but over the freeway, I had the distinct image of it being long and narrow, but after the turns, it made then more like a plane, but that could have been my eyes playing tricks with trying to attach some shape to it. It had no other lights on it. At first, I thought it was a shooting star but it was ! not moving in a curve. Then I thought it was a comet, but it didn’t have a changing tail behind it – it did have a tail, but very very faint, but I knew it was too close to the earth to be a comet. Then I thought it was a meteorite since one fell near Chehalis recently. Then I thought it might have been a plane coming in for a crash or emergency landing to Boeing Field. And I also thought it might be a cruise missile or test drone craft that Boeing might be testing. I really did expect an explosion so the whole incident was quite scary causing me to quickly cross all the lanes on the freeway from the left to the right emergency lane to stop where I called 911 to report it.

((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone at length, and we found him to be exceptionally credible. The individual at the Seattle FAA offices, who also spoke with the individual, had the same assessment of the witness. PD))