Washington State seems to be a pretty popular destination…for visitors from other planets.
The website, Travel Lens, declared the Evergreen State the 3rd best spot to see a UFO, but really, with 6,885 UFO sightings called in to the National UFO Reporting Center, the state ranks third, with fewer than half the sightings reported in “spaced out” California, but former Washington director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), James Clarkson, says the Northwest has seen its share of the more credible reports, some right around the time of the July 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash, including one he says fascinates him the most. “On the July 4th weekend, five on-duty police officers in Portland, Oregon…they’re all named in the newspaper article,” Clarkson says, “in broad daylight observed silvery, disc-shaped aircraft flying over the city”.
Clarkson says many sightings are around nuclear sites, including two near Hanford in the 40s, and several around the Bangor shipyard, where nuclear missiles are stored, so nukes might pique the interest of our interstellar neighbors, but he says the Air Force is still pretty tight-lipped, so it might be a while before we see any actual proof ‘close encounters’.
Clarkson has written two books, including one about a mysterious 1979 crash near Westport in Grays Harbor County he says had the military shutting down logging roads and keeping people out. The other is the story of June Crain, who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and makes claims, including her handling of a “memory metal” her colleagues said came from an alien spacecraft. You can find more on Clarkson’s books on his website.
There is much more, including a UFO sighting in Washington days before the Roswell crash, in James Clarkson‘s complete interview with Northwest Newsradio’s Ryan Harris in the video below:
