Size of Object(s)

90 to 120 feet approx long 40 to 50 wide

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

varied

Shape of Object(s)

Cylinder

Color of Object(s):

luminous red

Full Description & Details

Single, silent, steady red light... It was at first the size of a grain of rice at arm length, moved very slowly along ridge opposite bank of river along a ridge. We observed the object about two hours drifting 100 to 150 yards above hilltop , moving northly along and then slipping over the ridge as a steady red light.

We easly watched it as we sat by a fire, and wondered what it was and what it was doing. Object continued drifting west till size and shape was unmistakable, it was a perfect cylinder; glowing steady red in color. Maybe about 90 to 120 feet long ( I'm guessing about the size as there was nothing but the slash piles beneath it to compare it to) It started emitting a single search light which moved about looking around the ground, then a second search light, both intensely bright came on, and it too started looking around.

Object was tilted slightly downward at the searchlight end. It never turned, or rotated, always staying lengthwise to us, ends pointed roughly north and south. There was no sound, though river’s water noise could have been as loud or louder then it might have been.

My idiot friend turned on an off his flashlight while pointing it at the object. I made him stop. There was no response to his light, thank God. Yet, after about 40 minutes of looking for something, and about 5 minutes after Dan blinked his light towards it, one searchlight went out, and almost instantly the other one went out too. Within a three seconds of the searchlights going out, and while we were still sitting watching it, the object seemed to completely vanish, or maybe it went totally dark. No sound, no light, just sudden darkness.

Woods were completely quiet, only the very faint whooshing of the river. No crickets, frogs, owls- nothing. I had been there many times; it was never that still before. About fifteen minutes later the stillness was broken by a sudden, intense windstorm above us that seemed confined to the upper tops of the large Douglas fir trees that were still there at that time. Branches as large as 4 inches broke out of the treetops, a great number of much smaller pieces and cones as well. Branches in the middle of the tree, and the ferns all around us were completely still, except for being hit with pieces falling from the tops being violently blown about. We were so afraid.

We took up our .22’s and added all the wood we had available to the fire. The small dog my friend had brought, that had been acting nervous, now hid in the sleeping bag and shivered. Wind lasted about 10 minutes died down to about half as hard for about a minute in time, and then just suddenly stopped, just as suddenly as it had started. There was no light with the wind, only just wind. Once again, total silence. No wind, no animals, no crickets or frogs. Then, all at once we were very, very frightened.

It was at least an hour before we could try to sleep. Somehow we did, though later that night I awoke and heard loud walking noises in the woods near where we camped, the fire was low, but I could just make out something big and dark moving around where we were. I tried could not wake Dan or the dog despite my spirited attempts. I fired a shot, to frighten away whatever it was when it seemed to be moving right towards me, and Dan and the dog awoke. At the shot, the dark shape I had seen moving towards me was gone.

I heard no running or crashing as I have when running off bear and elk before and since. The next morning all around our camp the ferns had been smashed flat in a circle around us in a path about 2 feet wide and 60 feet in diameter. Dan didn’t want to even speak of it then or ever again. It was years before I could go back there. It was, and is still very, very disturbing. I haven’t seen Dan in years now.

I swear this is true.

Witness Background

Supervisor, college, married 19years three children

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