Bothell, Washington UFO Sightings in 1998

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Two cylinder objects as if they were clouds at first. One seemed to "land" or fly VERY low, stop and wasn't to be seen agian. 4 other "bubbly" type objects followed after the object appearing to land.

I say land because it was moving slowy. Numerous jets quickly appeared in this precise area for a long period. I got a call from my mother this morning about 7:25 asking me to come over and look at what she was seeing.

I live in Bothell, just blocks from her place so I went over right away. She lives high on a wide open hillside overlooking all of the Cascade mountains from about the Carnation foothills going out to the east and from about the Darrington foothills further north going out and over to the east. The view goes well over the Cascade mountain pass encompassing the Eastern Washinton areas of Whenatchee, Chelan and Brewster areas.

I got to her place about 7:40. I did not see the objects that my mother said were so unlike anything she had ever seen (she will write out her personal discription in a message to you after she gets off work as a computer programmer today). What I was clearly seeing though were many jet contrail lines in and out of the precise spot she saw these UFO's.

What seemed curious where the amount of these contrails. After 15 destinctly seperate trails within 1 hour of arriving I just stoped counting. It was as if I were at an air show watching the those plans that leave those patterns of smoke trails except these planes were fast.

From the best I can position them, they were flying in a tight area that seemed to be right over the Whenatchee area. The jets seemed to be coming in from the south. "Well, I certainly have never seen such a force of jets at work like this before".

I would like to hear what people in the Wenatchee area know or saw. We did take some later pictures, only of the contrails, if they are clear enough we can scan and send them latter if wanted. ((Name deleted.

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Saw 2 cylindrical and 4 oval objects slowly descend from clouds over the Wenatchee area. About 15 jets over area, but only 2 or 3 at a time. First spotted a thin (flat) horizontal cloud that began to tilt and descend.

Then a larger thicker (taller) horizontal cloud also tilted to the left but the leading portion no longer looked like a cloud but cylindrical and dark (not sunlit by the rising sun). Two small clouds came out of a separate larger cloud. Binoculars showed them to be oval in shape with distinct edges - NOT clouds.

The second cylindrical one now down past mountains. Another oval one came out of the same cloud the earlier ones had. All objects SLOWLY descending past Cascades.

Jets flew in from the South, about 1 or 2 at a time. Jets in the area past 9:30. All objects were lit by the sun as clouds are.

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Viewed a brightly green shooting-star like fireball. It started about in the southeast sky at a downward angle and traveled west before it disappeared. My wife went out to walk the dog at 8:50 PM on Wednesday, September 23, 1998 in Bothell, WA.

Right around 9:10 PM we were walking in a SE direction when I noticed a bright light in the sky but partially obscured by a tree. The light appeared to be about the size and brightness of (Jupiter?), the bright planet currently visible in the southward sky, but pale green in color. I soon noticed the light moving toward Seattle (west) and at a downward angle.

I told my wife to look. We both witnessed it as it streaked into full view for about three more seconds. The light appeard to get bigger and brighter as it moved and had a small orange-red tail.

The largest the light ever got was about the size of an eraser held at arms length. It seemed to disappear or burn out about 30 degrees in the horizon. My wife's first thought was that it was a firework because of its color and brightness.

I believed it was too far and too low in the horizon plus moved too far and fast to a Roman Candle. It basically looked like a very bright shooting star - but green.

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Object entered atmosphere from above, traveling east to west. Object entered atmosphere from just east of top dead center, traveling east to west. Object appeared to have a direct trajectory of 20 degrees downward as it traveled.

Initially appeared to be a meteorite, but blossomed into fireball within a half second of being spotted. Fireball developed, appeared to be white/greenish white. Looked reminiscent of re-entry of manned space capsules seen in pictures.

Appeared to be eminating from center of object and fanning out to the rear. Object moved relatively slow compared to the quick meteorites seen in shower months. Object appeared to burn out, dimming in intensity and just before extinguishment appeared to have several apparent red embers floating behind it.

From south of Bothell, elevated at approximately 75 ASL, it appeared as one looks directly south, the bearing was from 160 degrees on the compass going to approximately 250 degrees. There was an aircraft on final for SeaTac who would have had an excellent view of the object, appearing to be about even with the 520 bridge on their approach. The light as it extinguished appeared to be at an altitude well above the airliner on approach.

No other aircraft were noted to be in the area at the time. The object, for reference, seemed at it's biggest, to be about 33% the size of a full moon as it is typically seen overhead. The observer is a former military electronics technician, with some aviation experience, and on track to earn his private pilot wings in second quarter '99.

The observer was standing outside with a clear view, on a clear night, with no obstructions impeding the event.

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fireball desending from sky toward horizon. round fireball desending from zenith toward horizon.

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It looked like the saucer on the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. It had two disks, one on top of the other. Also, it had a flashing white light on top and bottom.

It flew over my house. Then it proceeded to fly straight, and gradually swerved off to the right, heading east. I looked at it through binoculars and would have taken a picture, if I had a camera.

Two of the observers are 13 yr. olds, two others (myself included) are 14, and there was one 45 yr. old.

The UFO was illuminated in what seemed to be a white light. It had two flashing white lights: one on top, the other on bottom. It had a faint red light in the side, also flashing.

The UFO looked like two discs stacked on top of each other, and it was in the shape of the saucer from the enterprise on Star Trek.