NUFORC Sighting 43098

Occurred: 1980-06-10 05:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-03-20 13:22 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 3

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

1980 Sighting with Memory Loss Seattle, Washington at Boeings & I-5

It was 5:30 AM. My mother, son and I were traveling Southbound on I-5 on our way to pick up my brother to go fishing. I was driving and felt a very strong vibration traveling up my arms from holding the steering wheel. This vibration was so strong that I could feel it in my chest as well. There was no sound.

We were passing Boeings, which is a small, private airport for private and smaller commercial planes. I leaned forward to look up through the windsheild (I was driving an Oldsmomile that had a deep, slanted windshield and it was necessary to lean forward to view the sky).

I witnessed a large (about 1/2 the size of a football field) saucer shaped UFO. I remember it being a pewter color,a dull silver, rather than the shiny description I have since read about. There were "running lights" flashing on the underside of the craft - much like the "chasing lights" now available for Christmas Tree lights. I remember them being blue in color. The UFO was a little higher than the freeway street lights (VERY close) and almost directly above our vehichle.

I remember yelling out in shock and excitement, "Mom, it's a UFO...Oh My God, it's a UFO!". I remember making the decision to pull over to the shoulder of the road. As I navigated over, I remember seeing 6 - 7 other cars parked on the shoulder of the opposite side of the freeway - they would be heading Northbound. I do not recall seeing anyone in or near-by their vehichles. I do not remember seeing any cars on either the freeway or on the shoulder of our side of the freeway - Southbound.

This memory was lost for 3 years! One day, I was doing a mindless task - dusting furniture - and recalled the sighting. It was in Technocolor and VERY clear...only 3 years later! I called my mother, who was living in Alaska and asked "When we were going to pick up my brother to go fishing 3 years previous...what did we see?" Her answer was instantanious, "A UFO." I asked if she'd recalled this or had told anyone about it previous to my call. Her answer was "No." Neither my mother nor I are the type of people to keep this memory a secret. we would have told close friends and family members. We didn't. We couldn't! We had had our memories blocked somehow.

When I recalled the sighting, my memorie goes from seeing the UFO to being in a rented rowboat at in Point Defiance Sound (located in Tacoma, Washington), our fishing destination. We were caught in a rip-tide and I recall all 4 of us having to lay flat in the boat to avoid being tossed into the sound by the extreme bobbing of the boat encountered in this rip-tide.

After my mother and I discussed this incident, I called my brother and asked him if he could remember if my mother, son and myself were late in arriving for our fishing date. He couldn't recall, as it had been 3 full years after this trip.

Neither my mother nor I recall seeing anything other than the UFO. I am filing this report in the hope that one of passengers of the other 6-7 cars may have a clearer memory of the encounter and wish to report this for the record.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD

Posted 2005-04-16