[steve86]

Military flares fooled me twice in life, once by the Yakima Firing Range and once on a Hawaiian island (forget if it was Maui). But your most of your sighting doesn't fit that profile. You have to be careful, though, of illusions where your mind draws lines to connect things where there is really nothing there. Like lines between the lights to create the outline of the body of a "ship".

I had a good sighting in the 60s, was in the afternoon after school, where a friend and I saw a bright point high in the sky, going in a straight line and followed by a fighter jet with contrail (F100 from Spokane?), when the bright point suddenly made a 90 degree zero radius turn and pulled away from the jet like nobody's business.

[silverleaf]

My Dad saw UFO over Korea while flying mission in 1951, he was a fighter pilot and certainly knew the state of aircraft technology and was known or unknown or within the bounds of known technology

To avoid being interrogated or grounded, he never told anyone except my Mom, who waited 50 years to tell me

[ssschev]

Speaking of Spokane, in 1979 I was in Post Falls and watched a “craft” moving west about 500’ off the ground and about a 1/4 mile away moving west towards Spokane at a ground speed of 50 +/- mph (slower than the highway traffic). It was a quiet December winter night between 8pm and 9pm with snow on the ground which made it lighter than normal. No lights visible on the “craft”. What caught my attention was a low pitch hum. No wings, oval shaped and dimentions relative to a 747 as far as length to width ratio. I’ve always wished I had a camera.