I see from my blog’s search terms that …

Orange Lights have hovered over Whidbey Island.

And thus we have this picture of this town yokel pointing into the distance.  Presumably into the direction the orange lights were.

“We’ve seen a lot of stuff, but this was the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen,” said Dick Johnson, a retired civil engineer.

Orange lights!

“The first thing I thought was Area 51 moved to Whidbey Island,” he said.

Wait.

“I know what a helicopter sounds like; thump, thump, thump,” he said. “This was no noise.”

While he’s more inclined to believe the lights were some sort of top-secret military project, as opposed to a flying saucer from outer space, the experience was more than a little startling.

Well.  Okay.

A Whidbey News-Times reporter also visited six different homes around the Johnsons’ house, but none of the neighbors reported seeing anything out of the ordinary that night.

Several did express disappointment, however, at being left out.

“I wish I’d seen it,” Tim Oliver said with a laugh.

A 23-year resident of the community, he also has a great view of the water and often observes marine and air traffic passing through the area. Oliver said he’s never witnessed anything that might fit into the extraterrestrial category, but planned to redouble his vigil following the Johnson’s encounter.

“Now I’m really going to be looking out the window,” he said.

This is, of course, that “X Files in the background ” ‘Could be; could be not” feature story angle of the mainstream liberal media your ufologists are complaining about in terms of how these things get covered.  It gets worse for the Johnsons…

Another neighbor, who asked to be identified only by her first name, was home Saturday evening but said she also missed the excitement.

“That would be cool if it was (a UFO) but I didn’t see anything,” Janice said with a smile.

While being interviewed, another neighbor drove by and Janice eagerly asked if she had seen anything.

The driver replied that she hadn’t but expressed the same excitement over the possibility.

Anyway, those wacky X Files theme song playing in the background tee hee stories bring us back to “Chinese lanterns.”

And we have another photograph of the man here.   His hand is moving to a different location.

“This is not something I was imagining,” Johnson said. “I was sober, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke pot. … I definitely saw what I saw.”

“I’d swear on a stack of Bibles,” he said.

And now everyone who saw something is forming a support group of “No.  We saw something”.

“They looked to me like hot air balloons released just for fun,” Shimek said.

All right.  I’ll keep you posted the next time I see Whidbey Island circulate in search terms.

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