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Spinning, Flashing UFO Spotted in Gaston

May 25, 2019
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by Cole Miller May 16, 2019 (koin.com)

• On a January night in Gaston, Oregon, David Stone and his wife were preparing to turn in for the night when Mrs. Stone ran her husband and said, “You got see this!” There was a bright, spinning light in the dark sky.

• “It was a spinning, colorful light and it was too, it wasn’t too far away but yet it wasn’t right here …. it was like, what could it be?” said Stone (seen above pointing at the place in the sky where he saw the UFO). “It would spin and it would get bigger and bigger and bigger and then it would poof just go away for like I don’t know a quarter mile, half mile, just gone and then come right back,” he said.

• Stone’s wife posted the video on social media, which began Mutual UFO Network’s Tom Bowden’s investigation. Bowden looked into air traffic patterns and astronomy, eventually concluding the flashing orb was an unidentified flying object.

• “Nobody could say one way or the other what it was,” Stone said. “God created the heaven and the earth so I guess there’s more to it than that.” Stone says despite witnessing the UFO, he’s still a skeptic.

• [Editor’s Note] Apparently seeing isn’t believing for David Stone who remains a skeptic of UFOs. Cognitive dissonance and mind control are not easily overcome.

GASTON, Ore. (KOIN) — It was a quiet January night in Gaston when David Stone’s wife saw something she couldn’t explain.

“I was in bed, my wife came home and she was putting some groceries away. She comes running in, ‘come out husband, you gotta see this,'” Stone said.

There was a bright, spinning light in the dark sky.

“Out here it’s quiet anyway and the stars come alive,” Stone said. “It was a spinning, colorful light and it was too, it wasn’t too far away but yet it wasn’t right here …. it was like, what could it be?”

2:45 minute video of orb light UFO over Gaston, Oregon (KOIN 6 News)

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Oregon’s UFOs: Strange sightings in the Northwest

November 13, 2018
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by Cole Miller October 30, 2018 (koin.com)

• Tom Bowden is the Oregon director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. “I started looking into this subject matter in 1974, 1975,” Bowden said. “What we do is we investigate the people who say they’ve seen UFO’s. We’re looking to their story and trying to understand that person.”

• The volunteer-based group has four investigators in Oregon, which ranks incredibly high in sightings. There was the famous saucer from McMinnville in the 1950s. Before that, something strange was spotted over Mount Adams. Bowden said this summer was a busy one. “I’m not sure what was going on but ever since May it’s been a real hot year,” said Bowden.

• Bowden’s most memorable investigation was in August of 2003. “This dark, triangular craft was just hovering right there a few hundred feet above the houses,” Bowden said. He posted flyers around the neighborhood and more people came forward to reporting seeing something just like that.

• At age 71, Bowden believes the government knows more than it’s letting on about UFOs. Bowden hopes a breakthrough will come while he’s still alive. Until then, he’ll keep digging.

More often than not, when we hear about unidentified flying objects, we think about the Southwest — New Mexico and Roswell, but what about right here in the Northwest? One expert said Oregon has the 2nd-most UFO sightings in the United States.

The most recent was seen in the skies above Pendleton.

A small dot in a sea of blue — just a speck in the sky — was spotted by Virgil Bates Jr. The UFO floated above Pendleton, with its historic downtown and cowboy statues, for more than an hour in July 2018.

“We looked up, you know, you see this white thing. It’s just there,” Bates said. “That got our attention”
The little speck didn’t go unnoticed. A lot of people in town looked up and saw it.
“Yeah it was pretty cool,” Bates said.

In a landscape that looks somewhat extraterrestrial itself, with an air base not far from town, Bates said there was nothing else flying that day. His only explanation is that it was an unidentified flying object.

“I think there’s other things out there,” Bates said. “We can’t be the only people around, or whatever you want to call us.”

Tom Bowden is a UFO expert of sorts. He’s the Oregon director for what’s known as MUFON –the Mutual UFO Network, which is dedicated to studying UFO sightings and those who report them.

4:51 minute video from KOIN 6 CBS news affiliate in Portland, Oregon

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