NUFORC Sighting 28185

Occurred: 2003-03-16 19:30 Local
Reported: 2003-03-17 15:57 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Edmonds, WA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle (100-150' per side) w/ three bright lights travelling about 20MPH at 200-300' AGL (above ground level).

I was just returning from the beach with my Golden Retriever when I noticed what looked like two bright landing lights coming at me. I am a pilot and was wondering why they were flying so low. They were about 1 mile away at an altitude of 200-300' AGL (just above tree level) traveling in a Northwesterly direction. I watched for about 20 seconds when I noticed that there was actually three bright lights and that they were on the bottom corners of a black triangle (about 100-150' to each side). I was standing in the middle of a park (large open space), with the craft heading straight for me. At that moment, I decided that I would not want to become an abductie statistic and said out loud "I'm not ready for this!", so I quickly made my way to the closest trees for some cover (a 10 second dash). I looked back and it was gone. The craft should have been there. It was as close as 200-300 yards and traveling at about 20 MPH with no sound. This happened about 5 miles south of Paine Field - my home airport, with-in their Class D airspace. Upon returning home, I opened your web site to see if there were any other sightings like mine. To my amazement, I found on your home page exactly what I saw. It was the incident on January 24, 2003 near Kingston, Ontario, Canada only she had more guts than I did. I have contacted Paine Field Airport Management and they are researching their radar tapes and talking to the tower personnel for that time period. I will keep you advised.

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Follow-up on triangle sighting.

Follow up: I failed to mention on my original report that the object did not have any normal aircraft lighting ie: red beacon, white anti-collision strobes, nor red or green running lights, only three bright white lights on the bottom of the craft near each of the three corners. I have further heard back from the people at Paine Field Airport in regards to their findings on the radar tapes. No radar returns for that given area (5-DME on the 180 radial from their VOR) during atleast a one hour time frame. In fact, they thought it very strange that there were NO radar returns for anything south of the airport including the standard southerly or westerly approach patterns for the main runway 34L/16R.

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Posted 2003-03-21

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