At night, soldier in training has sighting at Ft. Lewis witnessed in Thurston County, Washington

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I am prompted to submit this story after reading several months ago on this website about the incident that took place in August, 1967 in the same area. It has taken me a couple of months to decide to submit this report, but am now convinced that it may be helpful to you: I was an Infantry Lieutenant with the US Army in April, 1979 participating in a escape and evasion (E&E) course. Our class was dropped off at the southern end of Weir Prairie in the South Rainier Training area late that afternoon. The purpose was for us to break up into small teams and E&E north to the Nisqually Bridge. We were given 24 hours to accomplish this and had to evade search teams on jeeps that were sent out to pursue and capture us. A relatively large group (about 10 men) chose to follow myself and my Platoon sergeant (name unknown) and we proceeded north along dirt roads as far as the intersection of roads 1 km northeast of Flander Lake. There, we started to encounter jeeps patrolling the roads. We d...