Picture this: you’re riding passenger in a work truck, contemplating another long work day ahead, when suddenly your peripheral vision catches something that shouldn’t exist. A ripple in reality itself, moving with purpose just yards away from unsuspecting people. This is exactly what happened to Daniel Velazquez, a 40-year-old construction worker, during what should have been a routine commute to a job site in Seattle.
The Encounter
It was late August 2018, and Daniel was riding in the passenger seat of their work truck as his boss navigated the familiar exit off I-5 – the major interstate artery connecting Canada to Mexico. Seattle’s urban sprawl stretched around them, a typical workday beginning like countless others. But as Daniel relaxed back in his seat, something extraordinary shattered the mundane.
“I looked to the right and I seen this ‘Predator’ figure moving to its right,” Daniel recalls. “I jumped up in my seat and said to my boss, ‘Oh my God do you see that? Look!'”
The figure was unmistakable – exactly like the cloaked version of the creature from the Predator movies, not the alien form, but that telltale shimmer of advanced camouflage technology. Except this wasn’t Hollywood special effects. This was broad daylight on a busy Seattle freeway exit.
“There was a little outcropping of trees and beyond that there were three to four homeless people just going about their business,” Daniel continues. “They seemed to be clueless about the ‘figure’ that was walking about twenty yards in front of them.”
The implications sent a chill through him. Here was this inexplicable entity, moving freely among people who remained completely unaware of its presence. The translucent humanoid appeared to be observing, perhaps studying, the group of unsuspecting individuals.
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A Moment of Impossible Reality
Daniel had only four to five seconds to process what he was seeing before the encounter ended as abruptly as it began. When he turned to alert his boss and then looked back, the figure had vanished entirely – either gone or moved beyond his line of sight.
“I was absolutely stunned! I was absolutely shocked and did not know what to say or do,” he admits. “In my 40 years I have never seen anything like that!”
The witness emphasizes the profound impact this brief sighting had on him. For someone who had lived four decades without encountering anything remotely paranormal, this moment represented a fundamental shift in his understanding of reality.
The Weight of Silence
Perhaps most telling is Daniel’s response to the encounter. Despite the extraordinary nature of what he witnessed, he’s shared his experience with only one person – his wife.
“My wife is the only person that I have told because I don’t want people to think that I am crazy,” Daniel explains.
This reluctance to speak openly reflects a common pattern among witnesses of translucent humanoid encounters. The fear of ridicule, of being dismissed as delusional, keeps many people silent about experiences that may be more widespread than we realize.
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Urban Predators
Daniel’s sighting adds to a growing collection of translucent humanoid encounters in urban and suburban settings. Unlike the deep forest encounters often reported, this incident occurred in broad daylight near one of the busiest transportation corridors on the West Coast. The creature appeared comfortable operating in proximity to human activity, suggesting either remarkable confidence in its camouflage abilities or a complete disregard for the risk of detection.
The fact that multiple homeless individuals were present yet remained unaware raises questions about these entities’ interaction with our reality. Are they existing in a slightly different dimensional phase? Do they possess technology that selectively affects human perception? Or was Daniel simply fortunate enough to be looking at precisely the right moment and angle to detect what others missed?
Lingering Questions
Daniel’s encounter near Seattle adds another piece to the puzzle of translucent humanoid phenomena. His description aligns remarkably with hundreds of other reports worldwide – the Predator-like appearance, the fluid movement, the unsettling sense of being observed by something that shouldn’t exist.
What makes this account particularly compelling is its mundane setting. No deep woods, no late-night isolation, no altered states of consciousness. Just a construction worker on his way to a job site who happened to glance in the right direction at the right moment.
As Daniel concludes, “This was in late August this year 2018. I am construction worker in Seattle, Washington.” Simple, matter-of-fact, and utterly bewildering.
The truth about what Daniel saw that day off I-5 remains as elusive as the creature itself – there one moment, gone the next, leaving only questions in its wake.
This account was originally shared with Expanded Perspectives podcast. If you’ve had a similar encounter with a translucent humanoid or “predator” entity, we’d like to hear from you. Contact us at Reports@pararational.com with your detailed account.
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Could these translucent beings be our own military? We know they have employed cloaking devices in training exercises.