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UFOs Visit Seattle, Inspire Hilarious Commentary on YouTube

Thanks to KIRO’s Twitter, we were alerted to GossipandGabber’s YouTube video of the aliens “fucking landing.” (Note: they don’t land.) You see a rectangle “formed” by four blinking lights slowly move across the night sky, while the videographer calls to her friends, murmurs how exciting it is to have spotted a UFO, and says, “Holy shit, here comes another one.”

An unnamed co-UFO spotter hypothesizes that it could be floating luminaria (aka “glowing lanterns”), but the narrator quite rightly dismisses this in favor of the fun of the initial “aliens” notion. “I’m so putting this on YouTube!” she says.

When two lights break formation and move toward each other, her friend says, “Oh, look they’re going to kiss. Kiss, aliens!”

Hands down, it’s the most entertaining UFO video ever. Normally, it’s just a jerky camera and some heavy breathing dude going “Oh, man, oh, shit.” Which becomes a little creepy after a while.

A Seattlepi.com reader wrote in to say that he saw something similar: “I was driving eastbound on 164th St SE near Mill Creek around 430pm.  It was near sunset and I noticed a huge red light east over the foothills.  There were 4 lights in a square that were pulsating.”

That doesn’t sound like space junk suggested by Marius Strom, president of the Seattle Astronomical Society, when the Seattle Times asked what it might be. Curious people called into news media all over the area, along with the FAA and National Weather Service. The last two confirmed that it wasn’t a plane or anything weather-related that they knew of. Really, the only sane conclusion then is that invasion is imminent.

UPDATE: Here’s the full story of the video.

2 thoughts on “UFOs Visit Seattle, Inspire Hilarious Commentary on YouTube”

  1. Oh how much fun to make fun of teenage girls and grab some traffic to boot.

    You’ve got to feel great about yourself, eh? Very successful.

    You are exactly what is wrong with this world. Knee-jerk authorities on everything.

    1. What on earth…? I think it’s very funny because they *meant* to be very funny. They’re clearly having a great time. It sounds, btw, like her friend is correct–someone was releasing memorial lanterns at Gas Works Park that night.

      Just relax a little, not everything on the internet is attacking someone else. If you’re concerned about knee-jerk reactions, then consider how you could have reworded your comment in the form of a question.

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