NUFORC Sighting 56112

Occurred: 1959-07-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-04-05 17:29 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Castle Rock, WA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large, cigar-shaped aircraft with evenly spaced windows drifted silently over the tree tops at night.

I was nine years of age in the summer of 1958 and the sighting occurred at our family home about ten miles east of Castle Rock, Washington as my mother was tucking my two younger brothers and me into bed. We shared a single bedroom and my bed sat against the rear wall of the house off to one side of the bunk beds where my brothers slept. The windows were wide and narrow and high up near the ceiling. As my mother knelt down to kiss me good night, her attention was suddenly diverted by something that caught her eye as she glanced up through the window. Her face grew very serious then paled and her expression faded from curiosity to astonishment and then fear. Her expression frightened me and she failed to respond when I asked her what was wrong several times. I was afraid to look out the window myself because of the fear I saw in my mother’s face.

The following morning she told me she had looked out the window into the darkness just as a very large cigar-shaped silhouette glided silently into her view from her right (east), barely clearing the tops of the eighty-foot fir trees in the forest that began fifty yards behind our house. She said that she first thought she was witnessing a passenger airliner about to crash but then realized it was moving so slowly that it was nearly hovering and that there was absolutely no engine noise. She thought this was odd, because it was so close she thought she should be hearing something. She said as the object passed her field of view, she could see windows glowing with yellow light spaced evenly along the sides and even thought she may have caught a quick glimpse of dark humanoid shadows in one or two of the windows. She said it reminded her of watching a nearby passenger train passing in the night. She continued staring out the window for several seconds after the object drifted out of view, expecting to hear a crash somewhere nearby, but there was no such sound and that confused her even more.

My mother called the radio station the following morning and reported what she’d seen. The man she talked to said they had received dozens of similar reports from all around the area and that her sighting appeared to be where the sightings first began coming in. He told her the UFO had been tracked on radar across Oregon and into California where it turned west and then disappeared off the screen over the ocean at a very high rate of speed.

End of report.

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NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

We have met with this individual, and he seems to us to exceptionally serious-minded, and and exceptionally good witness. We express our gratitude to the source for having taken the time to submit such a high-quality report. PD))

Posted 2007-04-27