1996-05-01 - Bellevue, WA - Sphere

White glowing sphere flying low in sky, right in front of me. Two other witness saw cigar and triangle craft same time, same direction

My UFO Sighting — to submit to UFO hotline Peter Davenport Bellevue, WA. 8-9PM on a beautiful clear spring evening in 1996. I am alone in the car, driving home, going up a hill about 100 yards from my house. Coming from the dense woods on my left, skimming the tops of the trees, is a large ball of white light. It slowly, and leisurely glides through the air right in front of my vehicle in a long arc. That eery feeling of time slowing down came over me. As I watched it pass in front of me, I marveled at how beautiful it was, and how like the particular quality of light it emitted, similar, I thought, to the white glow of Saturn that I had had the privilege of seeing through a telescope so tall I had to climb a ladder up to the eyepiece. It was dazzling, and so was this. I was not afraid, just fascinated.

The glow of the sphere backlit my two-story house as it passed over and then behind the roof, in a trajectory that appeared to end in my backyard. Landed, I could not say, just that the glowing light extinguished. I parked hurriedly in the driveway, and ran inside to greet my husband. I announced: “A UFO just landed in our backyard — would you please go take a look?” Startled, he collected himself then took my hand as we walked upstairs to look out a window at the backyard. We saw only darkness. The next morning, we examined the yard, and that of the neighbor, but see no indications of anything unusual.

Here is the most curious thing about my sighting — I wasn’t the only one to see it, but I was the only one who saw a glowing sphere. Two friends both saw a UFO at the same time, in my approximate vicinity. We three had all attended an event and left at the same time. Soon after my husband and I had dared to peer out the window, the phone rang. It was Friend A excitedly telling me she had seen a UFO cross in front of her vehicle, and it looked like it was going to go right over my house. It was a cigar shaped craft. Had I seen it? Her phone rang, so she hung up to answer it. She soon called me back to tell me that the call was from Friend B who told her she had seen a triangle-shaped craft with lights, at the same time, going from left to right, and they compared notes. Had we each seen a UFO, at the same time, in the same vicinity, going in the same direction? Perhaps so, but it looked like a glowing sphere to me, a triangle lighted craft to one, and a cigar-shaped craft to ! the other.

Or was it the same craft? What I saw was flying low, just skimming the tall Douglas firs with a trajectory that took it low over my rooftop that ended behind my house. Perhaps that trajectory had begun, much higher in the sky, crossing the paths of those two friends first, then continuing right over to me, if a descending arc which ended behind my house. If so, this object was quite the chameleon! Alternatively, was it group of UFO’s? Were three objects out and about that night? If so, that would be an interesting grouping, and I wonder if there are any reports of a glowing sphere sighted with triangular and cigar shaped crafts.

All in all, my sighting was one of those moments I shall never forget. I feel privileged to have been a witness to it.


((NUFORC Note: The source of this report is a well-known, and popular, radio broadcaster and celebrity. We consider to be highly reliable, and an excellent witness in every respect. PD))