NUFORC Sighting 147254

Occurred: 2004-06-05 13:00 Local
Reported: 2019-07-03 01:51 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Arlington, WA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Animals reacted

My wife and I witnessed a dark shadow moving down our sidewalk when nothing was there to make a shadow for an entire block.

After moving into my wife's house in Arlington Washington, near Arlington airport back in 2004 we witnessed something extraordinary while clearing and plowing a new garden in our backyard. Our cat suddenly started to act odd and was making strange yowling noises. She then suddenly jumped over our wood fence into the front yard in a run. That struck me as very odd. So I looked through the slits between the fence boards to see where she was going.

As I peered through the slits between the boards of the fence I saw a shadow moving down the sidewalk outside our house. At first I didn't think much of it. But then the alarms went off when I realized that shadow was showing up on the ground under the shade of a very large tree we have in our front yard. How can there be a shadow inside a very shaded area? That is when I looked again, but closer. Then I saw it. a thick very black shadow on the ground that was moving from 176th PL NE on 39th Dr NE in a south direction on the sidewalk past our house. I then noticed not only was our cat following this shadow on the ground, but a few other cats from our neighborhood were also following it. Ever seen a cat go after a laser pointer? That is exactly what all the cats were doing. Like they were trying to catch it. I know it wasn't just the shadow that attracted them because of the way our cat sensed it from the other side of the fence in our backyard. It was really weird.

Then I pulled my head over the fence to look straight at it. This thing was invisible when you looked at it straight on, you couldn't see it at all. You could only see it when looking through the small gaps between the boards of our fence. It was moving slowly. To me it looked like the shape of a guy in a space suit pulling a kids wagon. I called my wife over to look. It took her a while to see it, and it didn't register with her that it was something unusual. I had to point it out to her. I said "It's a shadow in the shade"! Then she got it and her eyes got big. We watched it until it moved too far down the street for us to see it anymore. The last thing we could see were the cats following it because the street turns sharply just a few houses down and changes name to 175th PL NE. We decided whatever it was we didn't want to mess with it or investigate further. Especially since we couldn't see it looking straight at it.

Another caveat to this story is we had a child's wading pool full of water in our front yard. It had no leaks. I say this because it would hold water all day long. But all this same week leading up to this anomaly (shadow thing), at night the kid wading pool would get completely drained. As if something or someone was siphoning out all the water. I kept filling it back up and testing it for leaks. It would hold all day everyday, but be empty in the morning.

A few days after all this happened someone from Snohomish water conservation came to offer us "free rain barrels making class". She seemed very interested in striking up conversation. She was cute, blond, late 20s to early 30s. But she just stood there not saying anything after introducing herself and handing me the pamphlet about the class. But she was waiting for me to say something. It was REALLY strange and awkward. I got the distinct intuition that it was related to the shadow we witnessed and the disappearing water. Whatever that thing was, they knew about it and wanted to help us put water out for it. They knew it was taking water off of our property and they were trying to get us to provide water at that location for it. We went to the class and I did set up that rain-barrel. But I put cameras on it. Nothing ever showed up and I never noticed water missing from that rain barrel. I still get newsletters from that group at Snohomish water conservation to this! day. I never posted anything because I didn't know where to post it! And the whole thing seemed too far fetched to tell people about. Seems appropriate here among all the glowing lights people report. http://snohomishcd.org/rain-barrel-program/

Posted 2019-07-05