Foggy Bottom UFO - part 2

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Illustration by Keith Bastianini.

David Wisbey's story continues here in part 2 about a series of objects that flew over Washington D.C. skies near the Foggy Bottom train station during the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2000.

If you have not yet read part 1, you can do that here.

In this piece, Wisbey finally meets another witness from this UFO sighting - but he was not prepared for the incredible details this man would describe - sightings and events beyond his own description of cylinder-like objects moving across the sky.

The following is Wisbey's account told in his own words.

As I said at the conclusion of Part One, it was not until the summer of 2005 that I reported my sighting again. A lot happened in my life after the sighting and it wasn’t on my mind so much, as I was quite preoccupied with a lot of other things - in other words, “life happened”. But I never forgot. I don’t recall now how I found out about the 2005 Symposium, but I did. I also discovered that the MUFON headquarters was in Littleton. I recognized John Schuessler from “somewhere” in the past, probably from seeing one of those UFO programs on TV. I attended the Symposium and joined both MUFON and Colorado MUFON, and began attending Colorado meetings regularly. Eventually I discovered other local meetings and began attending them as well, but not as regularly. I put a new report of the sighting on MUFON’s web site and also NUFORC’s site. Since then I have put it on all the other web sites that accept UFO reports (those I know of, anyway).

I created a PowerPoint presentation about my sighting and presented it at the December 2005 Colorado MUFON Holiday Potluck, held in Glendale. It was only a 10-15 minute presentation; John Schuessler was the “real” speaker. I also created a small presentation about a sighting in the 90’s in Fairfax County, Virginia. A friend from church, who happened to work at the CIA (Langley headquarters), showed me an article that appeared in one of the local suburban papers. I made a photocopy of it, and later typed it into a Word document. I mention it here because the UFO reports all described it as being cylindrical, just as the ones I saw were.

The article follows below; I am sorry that I don’t have the information on the date and the newspaper. It would have been either The Connection, The Times, or The Fairfax Journal.

Back to my story… After reporting my sighting again, I occasionally would check MUFON, NUFORC, and other sites to see if anyone else who was there that night and saw what I saw had made a report. Nothing showed up until August 2007, which I didn’t see until September. I was quite thrilled to see it, of course.

This report was made to the MUFON site only. Here is the edited/shortened report plus details I got from the witness later, inserted within:

“On New Years Eve 1999/2000, my wife and I went down to the mall in Washington, DC. There was a huge celebration planned for that night, featuring many big stars. The climax was fireworks at midnight to usher in the new millennium. We arrived at the mall area by Metro at 10:30 pm and began walking around, taking in some of the sights and searching for a good spot to stay where we could see the fireworks. We did manage to catch some of Celine Dion's act, but getting near the stage was hopeless. The mood was happy, plenty of drinking/partying going on and only one instance of "violence" occurred that we noticed. My wife and I walked on and finally decided to stop near a bridge to watch the fireworks… enough of my reminiscing--on to the events that undoubtedly changed me forever. After the last falling embers died away, my wife and I began to walk to the Metro to start our dreaded journey home, as we knew there would be mobs of people joining us. As we approached the Metro escalator ( I believe it was the Foggy Bottom station) we saw a group of officers blocking the entrance, stating we all had to wait as the train operators had been given permission to go watch the fireworks and were currently en route back to the trains. I later found out that there were over 1 million people that attended the celebration on the mall that night--I cannot put into words how many people that is when you are right in the middle of such a huge mass of humans. We waited; people huddled together for warmth, which surprised me--people were very happy and helping each other--I am cynical, skeptical, and sometimes my faith in humanity is jaded. So it shocked me and actually gave a sliver of hope that one day it could be possible for mankind to be able to call one another brother.

“As everyone talked while waiting to get into the Metro, a young, drunk man climbed a tree nearby and was singing and generally making people laugh. Suddenly the branch he was standing on broke; he fell to the ground. He was helped back up and he cheered and the entire crowed laughed even more. That’s when I saw it. I thought it was a blimp. I noticed people pointing, a few at 1st, then more and more, and a hush fell over the crowd. Only silence and quiet mumbling was now heard. I looked back at the "blimp" I’d seen in the distance. More people were pointing and now a few people shouted like the game of "telephone" as the message was carried thru the crowd "Look at that! What is that!?" I noticed 2 more "blimps" identical to the first. All 3 were cylindrical in shape and had several lights. One shone a very bright "spotlight" down on the ground. I could not see what it was shining on--they were some distance from us-- 300 yards? These were traveling slowly across the sky and they were quite large--it was a bit exciting--I was not thinking about measuring, etc. I was in a speechless state. Then I saw someone pointing up and screaming "Look up there!" I saw about 20 triangular craft flying like a group of gnats--they were very quick and nimble. Each had 3 lights, one in the middle and one on each tip. They began to fly in different patterns. People began to say things, like, "They’re seagulls not UFOs"; I was thinking they were stunt kites. My wife asked what I thought; I told her they were stunt kites like I had seen at the beach. Suddenly they began flying in a tight circle very fast and then shot out at incredible speed and disappeared. About 2 seconds later they were back in the circle facing each other and stopped, then formed 2 groups, each group in a line--they formed the line two at a time, one from each group until they were all in a straight line facing ea. other, then they zigzagged across each other.

“Then I knew they weren’t stunt kites. I was amazed. People cheered after each little stunt performed. They were very close--I would say about 100' above. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

Illustration by Keith Bastianini.

"As far as I know, no one has aircraft that can move at those incredible speeds, stop on a dime, and be so graceful. I saw the Blue Angels as a kid; they are graceful, but need some room to build up speed--what I saw that night didn’t need any room at all--they achieved tremendous speeds from a dead stop. After 5 min. police started ushering people to the station, but continued to watch. Now and then one would swoop down within 20’ of the ground; as they came lower and lower the crowd began to back up and made a sort of clearing--I specifically remember people gasping and being generally startled as these "stunt crafts" came ever closer. It’s almost as if they were saying 'We ARE real and we are HERE - touch us.'

"That made the police very nervous. My wife and I laughed hysterically. A few young guys walked over to where they were swooping down; one guy reached his hand up high as he could to try to touch one coming down. After 3 swooping down, he turned and starting “whooping” to his friends and “flexing”—he actually touched one!

"Then 4-5 officers started yelling 'Get back now! Get away from there!' My wife commented on how the police were frozen in place and not moving from a “safe” distance. But one officer did run and grab him, pulling him away and pushing his back into the crowd. My wife grabbed an officer, asking 'What are those things?'

"When the officer turned, his eyes were so big, obviously he was terrified. 'I don’t know, miss. Please, everyone needs to leave the area immediately!!'

"The craft started to dart in different directions, very close to the edge of the crowd, and shot back up and circled. Other than that I heard nothing. When one came down it swooped to 1’ off the ground, shot up at an angle to about 4’ and stopped, right in front of us for 1 sec., before flipping over itself up and back to the formation above. At that moment I thought I was going to be hit by one! But it stopped about 2’ from me—I could feel the air from it. I could see right inside at the pilot.

"The pilots were not human.

"They were the commonly described, large almond shaped eyes, bulbous head--referred to as "grays" by many reports I have read. One thing I must note is that their skin was quite blue-tinged. I found it strange that they had this blue coloring, yet most, if not all, reports have described them as grey with no mention of blue.

"Suddenly I heard the loudest "boom" and other explosions--I thought they were more fireworks but didn’t see any. A few people screamed at the explosion; I don’t believe it was fireworks. [It was fireworks at 1 AM. - Ed.] Then I heard a helicopter. The triangles disappeared--vanished or flew away. I saw 3 helicopters fly to the area where the triangles had been, but continued on; soon as the helicopters were gone the triangles came from every direction and the crowd cheered. One guy next to me smiled and said 'The government can’t stop our party with the aliens, they can’t even catch them!'

"I noticed a man in a business suit come up the escalator as people were going down. Everyone parted for him, but he walked right into the crowd, asking us if we were having a good time; my wife said, 'Yes, a fantastic time--look up at the UFOs'. The man smiled, looked up, then back at us and said, 'Yes, they just want to join the fun.' I found something about him a bit 'off'. The cold didn’t seem to bother him at all. When he shook our hands and spoke to us, we felt so happy, joyous--it was incredible. As he walked away we noticed the feeling faded. So we followed him and ended up having a very nice conversation with him. Being close to this man, we were so happy and had an overwhelming feeling of love for everyone around us, especially him. I felt compelled to be his friend, a new, strange sensation, to say the least.

"My wife and I talked about this sensation later. He also talked with other people, including a few police officers, one of which was crying like a baby as our reality crashed around us. I'm not making fun of the officer, as I remember crying a few times but mostly because I wanted to feel happy and I wanted to keep the feeling of 'pure love' forever. He told us there was no reason that we couldn’t feel that way every day, but due to the way we live, it would not be easily obtained. He was also telepathic; we could communicate not only with him, but also with each other when we were close to him (within about 20 feet). Finally my wife tugged at my arm. 'Maybe we should leave?' We decided we were lucky to witness one of the most important events in history.”

The report included an email address, so of course I sent an email, and got a reply a short time later. In my email I said that now I wish even more that I’d left the Mall right after the fireworks! If I had, then apparently I would have been in for a lot more than what I got at Foggy Bottom. I have once again edited it to save space, but have tried to keep all the meaning intact.

Here are excerpts from his first reply:

“Thanks for replying; I have been searching for other witnesses for many years as well. I did post a report about a month after the celebration but there was no reply in other reports and then my post disappeared but was never given an explanation as to how or why and was told to repost it. It was not on the MUFON site and I wasn’t too happy about it being deleted. I finally did see two posts about the 2000 celebration and tried to contact one of the posters. [I was one of them. -Ed.] I asked the administrator to forward my email address to you but the he said, "Just post your report like everyone else; this is NOT a chat room or friends site." That angered me even more. Then in 2007 I was speaking with some people who encouraged me to give it another try, so this time I posted on several sites and included my email address.” [The only site it is presently on is MUFON. -Ed.]

We emailed back and forth for the next few months, asking and answering each other’s questions. I realize that what he reported is “over the top” compared to my sighting. I know what I saw; I believe what he saw, after all of this. During a recent trip to the DC area, I had a chance to meet him (call him Bill) and we went down to Foggy Bottom on Metro to revisit this site now quite special to both of us, and I can say that my belief in his story is even stronger.

Here are excerpts from his 2nd email:

“My experience that night really has changed my life completely. I'm not sure if I would say "for the better" unfortunately. To come forward publicly with my whole story would be "social suicide", I believe. I do want to understand more about that night but it seems a bit hopeless. Your picture/drawings of the cylinder crafts were dead on, I would say—that’s exactly what I saw that night--so if you ever have thought you were crazy and hallucinated the whole sighting, please comfort yourself in knowing that I saw them also—I really doubt that multiple people could see the same 'hallucination’- even if someone said it was possible, I would call them a fool. I know what I saw and your description proves we saw the same thing.”

In his 3rd email he related something else, which really surprised me. Here are the excerpts:

“The Millennium sighting was not my first sighting/encounter. I feel a bit embarrassed even re-telling all the events of the Millennium Celebration due to the scope of the encounter and other encounters I have had in my life. A few years ago, I woke up one morning because my stomach was hurting me bad; I stumbled into the bathroom, thinking I was going to vomit and I also had to urinate so bad it was incredible. I felt liquid on my hand. I look down and there’s blood dripping out of my belly button! I turn around and look in the mirror and there is a slow, steady trail of blood coming out of my belly button, and half clogging my belly button is a bunch of black hair about 6 inches long and what appears to be a small amount of skin! I had a doctor’s app’t that morning and I was quite relieved thinking maybe I had a serious problem. (hernia?) So first thing I tell the Doctor is what happened that morning and he cleans out a few more hairs and skin (It had stopped bleeding earlier) and he tells me there is a clean, straight incision in the back of my belly button and asks me if I’ve been sticking a knife or razor down there to clean. I'm pretty good friends with this doc and I'm like "Are you frigging serious?!" He goes on to say maybe I stabbed myself in the belly button in my sleep! After a few choice words, he laughs and just says "I really don't know. I've never seen anything like that before in my life." I was embarrassed and completely dumbfounded.”

His 4th email was quite long; here is one excerpt from his 4th email:

“I am waiting to hear from a researcher named Yvonne Smith when she comes back from a trip she is currently on and I am hoping to gain some answers and more insight into what happened to my wife and me that night. I am also searching for a competent doctor/therapist that will do some hypnosis/recall therapy with me--so far I have had no such luck in finding one I am comfortable with, preferably someone "neutral with no interest in UFOs, yet who isn’t "hard-wired" into thinking everyone who claims to have seen a UFO is totally whacko.”

I told him about Leo Sprinkle, but he pretty much ruled that out because of the distance and Leo’s interest in UFOs. I forgot to ask him about how contacting Yvonne Smith panned out for him. I will try to ask him the next time I visit with him. I am keeping his real name from public exposure; he does not wish to be identified publicly now.

I have continued to occasionally check UFO reporting sites to see if anyone else has submitted a report after all these years, but so far have not found any more.

I picked up ‘Bill’ in my rental car one day two months ago and drove to the nearest Metro station. We rode down to the Foggy Bottom station. I got major goose bumps as we were exiting the station. However, I was soon disoriented. It didn’t look right. I determined that this big building to the left shouldn’t be there. Bill also wasn’t sure this was the place. We walked into the building, which had its entrance on the corner. The sign above said “George Washington University Hospital”. I went to the information desk and asked how long it had been there. It was built in 2002. I felt relieved. I was hungry, so we ate at the hospital cafeteria, probably the very spot where ETs were doing stunts almost 9 years earlier! I plan on attending X-Conference 2009 in Gaithersburg, Maryland in April, and visiting Bill again.

I’ll soon be placing ads in papers to find more witnesses. I will also do more investigative work while I am there.