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Bright vertical moving light observed from Seattle residence

1959-10-10·7525 - 28th S. Cas Seattle·FBI·unresolved

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

Agency: FBI

File: FBI-UAP-D013.pdf

Case ID: 1959-FBI-35647B

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