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The witness said the craft made two different sounds - "a high pitch whine" - and a "rumble."
"There were also two white alternating lights that appeared to be in a center-front position on the bottom of the craft."
They are not sure if what they saw was a military craft. The object was moving very slowly at a low altitude across the sky.
The following is the unedited witness statement from MUFON.
Washington, August 3, 2009 - Slow moving, large, loud & whinning, the main lights had a triangular formation. MUFON Case # 18477.
Last night my son and I saw a "UFO" over Anacortes, Washington, heading southeast.
It made two noises, one of which was a high pitch whine, sort of like as a plane might be diving or crashing, the other sound was more of a rumble similar to a very large blimp. My sons, were awoke by the rumble.
It had three lights which were airplane like, in a light red tone forming a perfect equilateral triangle. There were also two white alternating lights that appeared to be in a center-front position on the bottom of the craft.
It appeared to be flying very slow and at low altitude as it flew over toward the refinery. I saw what looked like a wide flattish wing bending up at the outside edge, in a grey shade, as the refinery's flame reflected off the item, (the Flares give off an eerie glow as they burn, so who knows the actual color).
I saw the UFO from a different angle than my son, He was on the 2nd floor, I was on ground level. getting water, when I heard the rumble and then the whining . It sounded like a plane going to crash and I went to look out back, it had already passed over, so I ran back inside and watched the triangle of lights continue towards the refinery (the color seems not as red to me, but I was looking through low-E glass).
Our guess is some sort of military item, but we can't identify it. My son, (who is very into military aircraft) thinks the closest likeness would be a C-130j super Hercules, as perhaps a cargo plane for the Blue Angels, but he really didn't think that was it. He said it was moving too slowly for anything he could think of, and if it was in fact moving at a normal cruising speed, then that would make the craft a massive size, being that it would be at high altitude. When he went out in front of the house to look again, the craft started to fade off in the distance and for the last portion of visibility the only lights to be seen were the white flashing ones. We watched until it flew out of range and/or was no longer in sight We stayed up for quite awhile watching the sky trying to find it again, but to no avail.
We live very close to a Naval air station, and also have the Blue Angles in Seattle for Seafair. We get all the navy jets, planes and Helicopters over our house on a regular basis, but we had never seen or heard anything like this. We also have Helicopters landing and taking off within a mile of us as well
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