NUFORC Sighting 2281

Occurred: 1997-06-14 02:45 Local
Reported: 1997-06-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Vancouver, WA, USA

Shape: light

Summary : My sister, boyfriend and I were drivinghome one night and saw a strange light inthe sky and stopped to check it out. Theobject made strange movements,and flew away.

At about 2:45am on 6-14-97, my sister,boyfriend and I were driving home from workon I-205 north bound. My sister was lookingout the window and noticed a strange light inthe skies above us. She said,"I never seen anairplane like that before!" I stopped the carand the three of us got out of the car to geta better view. we used some binoculars,butcould not see any better. There was no noisefrom the thing we saw. It was just a singularwhite strobe light. Nothing like I"ve seen onairplanes, helicopters,and such. We watchedthe object for about 5 mins moving off to thenorth making a circular movement, like it wasspiraling to the north. It shot off to thewest until it was about NNW from us and continued its north bound course. We watched ituntil we could no longer see the object

Posted 1999-01-28