Bright vertical moving light observed from Seattle residence
A woman observed a very bright light moving vertically in and out of sight toward the east from her Seattle home, which disappeared when airplanes passed overhead.
“At 9; 15 a.m, 10/10/59, Mrs. NEEE-GOTSCHALL, residence address - 7525 - 28th S. Cas Seattle, elephone ~ WE 7-6896, wife of an Administrator in the "Bonlarc Air Space" section of Boeing Airplane Company, telephonically advised that between 4 a.m. and 4:45 'em. she observed a very bright light toward the east from her residence and this light had a tremendous brilliance, which appeared to be about the size of a dime and the light kept moving v@értically in and out of 'Sight but did Bet 'seem to move pce ee : — GOTSCHALL mie she eeteesd her husband and asked bin to look at this strange light and her 3 husband observed it and said it was very weird and he had no —- as to what it might | be.”
Verbatim from FBI-UAP-D013.pdf · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date
- 1959-10-10
- Date exactness
- Known to the day
- Location
- 7525 - 28th S. Cas Seattle
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Washington
- Branch
- FBI
- Unit
- SAC, SEATTLE
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- bright light
- Size
- about the size of a dime
Resolution
Witness noted the light disappeared when airplanes passed overhead
Source document
Quote checked against the original file.
This sighting
seattle / 1959
- FBI-UAP-D013.pdf — Written report of this sighting