NUFORC Sighting 08769

Occurred: 1999-08-21 15:15 Local
Reported: 1999-08-22 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Renton (NE of, approx. 5 miles), WA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

While looking at aircraft producing contrails, (4 parallel trails)through binoculars, my brother spotted ufo.

Shap given as unknown, because of the distant and movement of binoculars they could have been either oval, or disk shaped. Both my brother and I are private pilots. In our 40's. While watching aircraft superpolluting the skys. (and they make us take our cars in for a emissions test) Through binoculars, my brother became very excited he said I see something else up there. I ran to get some binoculars too. The one he saw was stationary above the area where the contrails were being made. ie amost directly above our house. Then after a couple of minutes is started to move fairly fast to the east. Untill out of sight. He then spotted another which I did see. Definately a metallic look to it. It was moving to the east went out of sight behind some trees. The third one (all these in the same general area above our house) moved to the east but then slowed down and seemed to make some aerobatic manuvers like turns to the left and some small circles and then proceeded to the east. All these were traveling much faster than the upper atmosphere winds could carry them.

Posted 1999-08-30