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The Kirkland police operator referred me to your number.

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Yes.

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Said you had some sort of a say, some sort of a bulletin.

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And my little girls were out, um, in the next, uh, uh, I flew a navy to torpedo bomber.

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And I, sure my vision is not that bad.

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But, uh, did you have any calls about these things that are circling over the Kirkland

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Life-Warshing area?

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Yes, we're flooded with calls.

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Well, I'm not the only one that's spooky in there.

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No.

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Yeah, we saw a bunch of them.

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They were, they were, they say, studying stars.

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And, uh, we were up in the north end of Lake Washington.

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And, um, to the south and east of us, these, oh, and it's been a half a dozen sort of red objects.

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And, uh, to be, mainly into the air traffic that normally comes across, you can spot the military in the, uh, in the, uh, commercial.

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Yes.

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And, and these things are sort of flying together in a sort of a semi-circular, um, sort of counter-clockwise area.

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Do you have other reports on this tonight?

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Yes, there are reports coming from, uh, all over North East Seattle.

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Uh, in North, in North, uh, Lake Washington also.

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Yeah, well, I don't know what I was seeing because, um, they didn't behave.

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And then there were some, some sort of bluish white objects that seemed to be going up and down like a helicopter might.

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Uh-huh.

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But, um, even with binoculars, you know, you can't really determine what's going on.

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But these red objects were going around, and, uh, they say counter-clockwise, they should have said clockwise.

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No, no.

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Yeah, clockwise.

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From the, um, north into the lake, south, and then around back, the ancient trees that I couldn't see, and then they seemed to disappear and then reappear.

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I see.

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And, uh, the bluish white objects, uh, were going up and down, and, uh, the girls said they were stars falling or something.

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Uh-huh.

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But they weren't because they'd, uh, the shooting star doesn't come down and go back up normally.

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Right.

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Never.

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So, I just know, I, uh, that I don't make great calls.

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I, uh, say I'm a next, uh, naval veteran, uh, never saying quite like it.

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I just know there was some people doing, uh, at 8.50, 8.30.

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Okay.

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Some place in there.

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Now, the red ones, did you ever get count on those?

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I got a count of about, um, well, as I say, I had looked through trees, and I, there was at least four to six.

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I could, I could always see four.

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Uh-huh.

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But, uh, when they got behind the trees, I, that sort of lose count, whether there was a couple others or not, I don't know.

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But, uh, they were just, uh, they weren't flashing or doing a darn thing, but they were just sort of red signaling.

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They seemed to be in sort of a loose formation.

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Like, um, you know, maybe three leaders and, um, and, uh, one on the tail or something, and they were sparse to part.

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Oh, gosh, I can't tell what the distance was.

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But, um, if it were a, uh, if it were a naval formation of some, uh, planes coming into land on a carrier,

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I'd judge them to be about a hundred yards apart.

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But I don't know how far I was looking out.

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Right.

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Were they, were they in any fixed formation?

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Uh, three seemed to be with one low, and then when they'd emerged on the other side, uh, as I say, I'd lose them in the trees.

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Right.

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But, um, there were at least four, and, um, maybe more, I don't know.

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But then over and over to the, uh, south and west of us, um, slight, well, almost due south, actually.

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A little bit to the west.

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There were a couple of funny things going on up and down, and there seemed to be quite a bit of, uh, of both commercial, private and military aircraft in the area at the same time.

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Uh-huh.

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And, uh, I was sort of losing track of what was going on where, but I couldn't forget what these, uh, I could give you.

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You can track a commercial plane by its signal in, uh, in a private and military, but...

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So I don't know.

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I was just wondering if it's, if, well, I wasn't having hallucinations because, uh, my, uh, ten, six-year-old daughter, so,

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and my wife all saw the same thing.

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Did you have any estimate on the size of those red lights?

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Oh, no, no, on your flight.

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Just plane red lights, okay.

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No, uh, even with binoculars, we couldn't, uh, get any configuration whatsoever.

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Were they operating at fairly high altitude?

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No, they were dipping up and down, which, um, this thing that caught my curiosity because they, they go, um,

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oh, anyplace to, um, 45 degrees above the horizon, down almost the horizon, and then dip back up again.

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Uh-huh, okay.

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And, um, and then I lose sight of them, and they sort of disappear around to the north, um,

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well, I'm in Juanita, and, uh, I've got a lot of trees around my house.

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So that kicks out of me, and they seem to be climbing to the, um, to the, uh, northeast.

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And then they dip down below, uh, the horizon, or the lights, uh, where I couldn't see them,

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and then they suddenly reappear back over to the, uh, southwest.

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Okay.

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In your opinion, would these be something out of the ordinary from conventional aerographs?

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Yeah, very definitely.

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They're definitely something out of the ordinary I wouldn't have made this stupid call.

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I feel like a fool talking about, I, I, I, I, I know you people probably take this seriously.

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Very much so.

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But, um, I never really have, and I've never seen anything that, um, would cause me to place a call like this.

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Uh-huh.

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Well, we've been fighting with calls tonight, uh, from throughout this area, and even some stuff from out of state.

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Oh, is that right?

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Right.

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I had a couple beers, but I haven't had that many.

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But that, these, uh, these things were doing some dipsy doodles, but, um, as I say, I flew

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Navy in World War II and, uh, I can't quite figure out what they were doing or what they were,

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but they certainly weren't like anything I've ever seen.

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Uh-huh.

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That, that solid red light I couldn't figure out because, uh, I don't know of anything in

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the air that permitted it to fly that way.

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Uh-huh.

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Unless there's some new deal about helicopters or something.

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Okay.

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You say your two daughters saw this too?

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Oh, yeah, two daughters and a wife.

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Uh-huh.

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They, uh, first picked it up, um, with binoculars when they were studying their stars for their

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astronomy course or something.

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And, uh, they watched them quite a while before they called me and asked me to come out and

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tell them what they were looking at.

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And, uh, boy, I couldn't, uh, I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

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It was, uh, it was, uh, it was not, uh, a normal, well-named military or commercial

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pattern that I know of.

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Of course I'm not that smart, so maybe you don't know.

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Okay.

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Well, I appreciate this call.

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And if we get any answers as to what's being seen around here tonight, we'll get back to

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you and let you know.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, if, uh, do you have any further interest if I make further sightings, do you call them?

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Oh, definitely.

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You would, you'd like to have me call you back?

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Oh, definitely.

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Very definitely.

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Okay.

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This is a 24-hour answer in here.

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Yeah, okay.

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Well, I've never seen anything abnormal in the sky before, but, um, but this certainly

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wasn't normal.

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Uh-huh.

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Um, I didn't get the, the solid rip thing going around and, uh, or the series of those things,

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and I didn't get that up and down.

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It was sort of, it looked like a, um, almost like a sparkler.

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You know, a, you know, a thing you'd have it for the July.

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Uh-huh.

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And it sparkled quite brightly.

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It was going up and down and sideways, and, uh, and I, I could figure out what in the world

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that was.

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I thought originally when I went out there was just a, you know, a falling star that

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was going down.

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It's, I mean, when I went back up, I figured, well, that doesn't make much sense.

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How about the speed of those red lights?

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I'd say, um, well, to say my perspective wasn't that great because I didn't have any idea

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of distance.

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Yes.

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But I'd say that they covered, um, 180 degrees in probably, uh, oh, a minute.

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Uh-huh.

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Or no, no, no, no, not that, not that much.

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No, no, no.

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Let me think.

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Um, yeah, that's about right.

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There'd be a, there'd be a, there'd be a few minutes.

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Okay.

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Uh, they, they would cover maybe from, um, from dead south to, um, to, uh, northeast.

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And they were going northeast or late.

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Uh-huh.

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Now I don't think, uh, we, we had them several times.

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I mean, it wasn't just one thing.

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Right.

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And they, uh, I'd say I think we saw them, I don't know how many times a girl saw them.

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I saw them, uh, about four times.

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And I think they were envisioned from, oh, my guess would be someplace in the middle

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of Lake Washington to, um, Woodenville and Sight for about, uh, two minutes.

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That's about 180 degrees, I think.

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Okay.

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Now this would be, uh, most of this was taking place, and I presume in the western sky.

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You were looking to the west, southwest.

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No, I was looking to the east.

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To the east.

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I'm looking to the east.

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I'm looking to the south and east.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So they, but they could be any place from the, the, uh, the mountains to, uh, right

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over head because they say they were just red, uh, blocks and, uh, with binoculars,

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I couldn't pick out any kind of identification of aircraft.

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Okay.

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Because I could see aircraft coming in, um, they come over sometime towards SeaTac depending

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on the wind conditions and, uh, and you can see the commercials coming in.

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And, um, and when I was, uh, out watching all this nonsense, I saw some military aircraft

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too, um, but, um, I couldn't, I couldn't, uh, pick out any except lights.

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Yes.

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And, uh, I was, uh, on these things that, uh, and that's what made it, uh, sort of interesting

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because you could see, you could identify, I can identify.

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I got, uh, after flying four years in the Navy, I can identify, uh, most things and what they're

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doing day or night, but, uh, these, uh, these are something that I've never, ever encountered

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before.

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I just don't know exactly what's going on, but, uh, it, I thought perhaps it might be

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some sort of a military maneuver and, uh, helicopters were coated with different colored lights or

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something, but, uh, I couldn't hear any helicopter sounds.

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Yes.

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So one thing that threw me off, and the engine noises I heard, I could identify, um, when

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commercial jets were coming in, but, um, these things, I don't know, it was, when the, when

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the normal jet noise, uh, died down, uh, there wasn't any sound.

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And distance, I, I couldn't even make a guess at distance.

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Yes, okay.

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So, uh, I don't know, I'm, I'm probably talking a lot of nonsense.

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No, not at all.

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Not at all.

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Well, we sure appreciate the call and if you see anything in the future, why, please let

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us know.

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Okay.

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I don't have my girls go out and sit and look for some more.

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Okay.

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If they see any, I'll give you a call back.

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What's your name?

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Bob Gribble, G-R-I-B-B-L-E.

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Bob Gribble.

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Is that a full-time job, Bob?

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No.

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Yeah.

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What do you folks do?

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Just record this stuff and, uh, we investigate all the cases and get all the data and, uh,

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get it into our data bank and look for patterns, concentrations of activity and so forth.

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Don't be darned.

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Well, that's very interesting.

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Um, if I, if I hear anything, or see anything more, uh, I won't feel like such a damn fool

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when I call you back.

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Okay.

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Okay, Bob.

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Thank you very much for your time.

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Thank you.

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Surely goodbye.

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Bye.