Unidentified flying objects, UFOs. For decades, people in the Pacific Northwest have seen things in the sky that they can’t explain. We saw this immense object in the field over there with lights that were spending, and it was something we had never seen before.

It took up most of this valley and it was just humbling. It was just hovering and we were mesmerised. Gloria Bonacci and her friend Mary saw something too. We were walking along and all of a sudden we looked up and there was an object. It seemed to come out of nowhere and of course we were scared and we ducked down in some tall grass behind a fence line. It was football shaped and had red lights.

All of a sudden that went up and horizontally it went toward the high bluff and it just kind of went below the bluff and then seemed to just go really fast and be gone. Susan and Gloria both live on Whidbey Island, not far from the Navy base.

They don’t know each other, but on separate occasions in the 1960s when they were kids, they say they saw something in the skies above the island that neither could identify whatever they saw.

Whidbey Island resident and former Nasa scientist, Dick Haines, ask that you please not call them UFOs. He worked as a Nasa scientist and though he was skeptical about unidentified aerial phenomena, he eventually founded a group that collects anonymous reports from pilots.

And it was three days before that when something called the Maury Island incident took place on Puget Sound near Des Moines, Steve Edmiston, along with Scott Shafer, made a film about it On June 21, a man named Harold Dahl, who has a 50-foot boat.

They refer to it as slag and it’s pelting down and it’s right above the boat. Harold’s son is burned badly on his arm, the boats being badly damaged. So they are so frightened. They take that 50-foot boat and they actually race it up on the beach on Maury island to get off the boat and hide and cliffs that were there. It’s not craziness.