Not everything we see is what we want it to be

At about 16:50 while gazing up at the mix of white clouds churning slowly thru blue afternoon skies overhead, something immense appeared literally out of the blue. This object moved quickly thru the sky casting shadows. At the same time, however, really couldn’t see anything tangible. What and where were those huge shadows coming from? Whatever the mystery was must be gargantuan to throw such massive shadows! Then I saw fragments of dark grey moving across rips of clouds. Gosh, another UFO? Finally? A real UAP? Been wanting to see another. Have witnessed several over decades, as well as saw a few things that while at first mysterious soon became recognized as obvious human aircraft. 

I was out for a long walk on the Interurban Trail thru the Westminster Triangle neighborhoods of southern Shoreline, a small King County city on the northwestern edge of much larger Seattle. Was walking for physical exercise, to clear my mind, and to nourish my soul in nature. So much was happening around the world. Walking was a healthy way to integrate everything and then move on from it all. So what was this strange, sudden object in the sky?

On this Tuesday afternoon in May, however, chaotic sky patterns broke across moving clouds, tall evergreen trees, fracturing sunbeams, and traffic noise. The chaos converged and momentarily confused me. What was I looking at? Whatever this object was moved with steady speed and cast broken shadows across fragmented clouds. For half a crazy second I even wondered if what I was seeing was the shadow of a dragon or one of those mythic thunderbirds or pterosaur cryptids. No way! There aren’t any such beasts in the skies! At least not here buzzing over metropolitan Pugetopolis! Its wings were so monstrous, tho.Didn’t hear much either over the roar of traffic along Aurora Avenue not quite a block over even with both my hearing aids stuck in my ears.

The next second patches of clouds swirled together to form a large sheet of clouds across the sky. The mystery revealed itself with instant clarity. Then I realized twas shadows of a big jumbo aircraft flying low as it lumbered northwards ho. I laughed. Yes, the now-identified flying object was a huge jetplane designed, manufactured, and operated by fellow Homo sapiens as it transported people and cargo low across Western Washington. For a brief moment disappointment reigned as had really wanted to see one of those football-field sized flying saucers or a huge sphere. Then relief set it. If NHI species and their larger machines were to appear over busy urban areas in broad daylight, what would it mean? Sometimes not everything we see is what we want to see. And sometimes we’re glad it isn’t.

Later on during my walk, I spied a silvery, metallic craft shaped like a bulbous gourd flying oddly across the sky. It roared with loud engine sounds, which informed me it wasn’t any alien machine nor secret human weapon. Ahh, probably just a jet aircraft, I reasoned. It moved too steadily and loudly. Turned out what I witnessed was it’s angle of flight to my line of site. The moment the object turned and the sunlight changed, well, one could clearly distinguish two wings, a typical aircraft tail, and a bright, metallic fuselage. Was clearly an airplane.

Yes, there are machines, as we think of machines, moving thru the space around our Planet Earth and thru our air, water, and even land that are of NHI, Non-Human Intelligences. There are also plenty of machines flying thru our skies that ours. We must stay open minded and vigilant. Practice the Practices of: Perception, Self-awareness, Discernment, and then Interpretation. Furthermore, during these times of rapid changes and shifts of mind, we must all learn to peacefully set aside our violent quarrels and work together as a planetary, spacefaring species.

William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Thursday 7 May 2026
Shoreline/Seattle, Washington
Cascadian Bioregion
USA
Earth
Sol

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