NUFORC UFO Sighting 176241
Occurred: 2023-06-12 22:50 Local
Reported: 2023-06-12 23:10 Pacific
Duration: Approx 1 to 1 1/2 minutes


Location: PLEASANT HILL, CA, USA
Location details: contra costa county

Shape: Unknown
Explanation: Starlink - Possible
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Walking dog looked up observed a very bright white double line

While walking dog for nightly constitutional was headed home looked up and observed a very bright white broken double line moving at an extremely high speed from west to east in the sky. If not for the illumination I would say the object resembled a con trail from a jet aircraft. In the time it took me to enter the house scream at my wife to come look at it and go back outside it was already reaching the east horizon line. The object must have been very large aand it was at about 20 to 30 thousand feet in the air about the same height as as normal flight pattern for commercial aircraft. No engine noise or sonic boom was heard. Never seen anything fly that fast and it was gone before i could even get my phone to try to photograph it. The speed had to be incredible due to the distance that was covered in such a short period of time. Quite exciting only wish I could have got a photo for you.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173467
Occurred: 2022-12-07 01:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-12-18 13:13 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: pleasant hill, CA, USA
Location details: looked like round orb falling/ moving quickly from sky

Shape: Orb


Bright orb falling / moving quickly as i drove home from work about 1:30am on 12/7/22. I posted on next-door neighborhood app

As I said, I saw this bright bright orb in the sky by Ellenwood shopping center in Pleasant Hill California. I posted on a neighborhood app called Nextdoor. No one else responded that they had seen anything. I’ve never seen anything like it. It wasn’t super large, just quick and very bright.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163954
Occurred: 2021-06-17 23:30 Local
Reported: 2021-06-18 09:08 Pacific
Duration: 30


Location: Pleasant Hill, OR, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Mysterious light in sky with 90 degree corners

I watched the white light for over half an hour. It first travelled in a square pattern above my home, then changed to a rectangular pattern going more east bound. At first I thought it was a plane but at each corner of both patterns it did 90 degree corners. This was done at high speeds. It was very high as evidenced by a plane passing in between my home and the white light. I called the local news tv media but was discounted by whomever I talked with. I tried taking a picture with cell phone but it didn’t show up.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163987
Occurred: 2021-06-12 18:20 Local
Reported: 2021-06-20 16:14 Pacific
Duration: ?
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, TN, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

A fleet of UFOs

Last Saturday, June 12th approx. 620pm I was coming home when a storm blew up out of nowhere. Really windy and dark skies but no rain. When I stopped at the crossroads I snapped this picture of the clouds and by then sunlit trees. Just a pretty picture.

Next day when showing it to a friend, I felt like I should check out the clouds. (took pic last year that had strange things in it) was I ever shocked.

Please zoom in on the sky and search the whole sky in the picture. There are many (many) weird looking UFOs? In it. Please get back to me as soon as possible and let me know what you think.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144089
Occurred: 2018-12-21 21:50 Local
Reported: 2018-12-24 17:40 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pleasant Hill, MO, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Rectangular object, fades away into space.

On the evening of December 21st, my 7 year old son and I witnessed a glowing rectangular object 12 o'clock of the Moon, which then drifted to the 6 o'clock position of the Moon, when it passed over the Moon it was lost in the light and then reappeared. The object moved downwards of the moon, enough that I held 2 fingers in front of my face, and could fit them between the Moon and the object. Up to this point I would have disregarded it as a reflection of some sort, however, the rectangular object then was stationary for a few moments, a glowing rectangle, approximately half the width of the Moon, my son and I watched as it slowly faded, as if it had flown into space. Some additional details I would include, are that I noticed several planes in the sky, and this was well above passenger jet altitude, also that it was not clearly defined, it was almost like a plane flying through clouds, when they have their lights on, except that there were no clouds around the object.

Posted 2019-01-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144047
Occurred: 2018-12-12 14:25 Local
Reported: 2018-12-13 09:43 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, MO, USA

Shape: Circle


I observed a round circular silver metallic object traveling East overhead in the clouds, then race extremely fast and disapearing within seconds.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2018-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134234
Occurred: 2017-05-20 22:00 Local
Reported: 2017-05-21 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright white cylinder, suspended at between 1000 and 1500 feet elevation above DVC college.

Posted 2017-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111719
Occurred: 2014-07-20 20:00 Local
Reported: 2014-07-20 20:58 Pacific
Duration: ~15 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Pleasant Hill, LA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 White lights looked like star moving 3-5 mins apart in sky over Pleasant Hill, LA

My wife and I were at a friend of ours house I was looking up at the stars and noticed what looked like a star moving.

At first I thought it was an airplane but noticed it had no flashing lights like an airplane. I also noticed it was moving to fast to be an airplane.

I pointed out to my friend and my wife we continued to watch it move across the sky hen after a few seconds it disappeared.

We saw 2 more pas by on the same path each on was about 3-5 mins apart.

Was very strange. The lights appeared to be traveling south.

Posted 2014-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109703
Occurred: 2014-05-25 18:50 Local
Reported: 2014-05-25 16:54 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, OH, USA

Shape: Sphere


I could make something like this, if I had a 'black budget.'

I got home from church and was talking with my parents about my day. Looking around in the sky an object, like a perfect white sphere was heading west against the wind. I couldn't hear anything and it was pretty high in the sky.

I've never seen anything like it in my life, I don't understand how a ballon or something round like that was heading west against the wind as fast and straight as this was.

After seeing it travel west for 15-20 seconds, it was too far to see.

It was awesome!

Posted 2014-06-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101481
Occurred: 2013-08-23 17:30 Local
Reported: 2013-08-23 18:02 Pacific
Duration: ~20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

Ok this is exciting for me so I will try to keep the facts straight.

Aprox. 20 min ago, I was looking up at the sky when I noticed a very tiny dot that was not traveling in the same direction as the very light clouds we been having this afternoon. Ran into my house to grab my binoculars. Was in the house for 30 sec. +-, When I returned the object was still in the same place. Which was approx. the 11 o'clock position to the south west. Stayed observing the object for approx. 20 min until me neck started hurting.

I can best describe the object as having 6 sides which composed of 6 white orbs with 1 in the middle total of 7 orbs clustered together. With only 1 of the outer orbs flashing on and off. My sister joined me about half way through this 20 min til the object was almost directly over head. Tried taking photos with my cell phone. But Haven't had a chance to view it yet. I hope this helps because I couldn't make this up if I wanted to. But please try to track it yourselves. I wanted to report this to you asap. It's probably still there. Thank you for your time

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89286
Occurred: 2012-05-27 23:40 Local
Reported: 2012-05-30 18:33 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pleasant Hill, OH, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Very fast and erratic light seen in the sky around Troy, OH.

My friend and I were finishing up a night of shooting the breeze and satellite watching. He looked up and said, "What kind of airplane is that?" I looked and saw a flashing light about 60 degrees up and 15 degrees right of north.

The light was a little brighter than the stars in the big dipper and pure white. It would blink twice within a second and be dark for about 3 seconds. It was moving in a very quick and erratic way with no discernable pattern. It seemed to be about the altitude of a commercial jet.

It stayed in that general area of the sky for about 2 minutes then moved behind the neighbor’s roof. It came back into view on the other side of their roof 10 seconds later. Where it blinked 3 more times and disappeared.

Within 2 minutes more we saw it blink 3 more times and disappear, but now it was about due south. Another minute later we saw it blink 2 more times back at its original NNW position. We stayed out for another 45 minutes waiting for it to reappear, to no avail.

I have worked for a commercial airline for 11 years; the other witness is an MBA with a large technology company. We are both 31 years of age. No drugs or alcohol were involved in this observation and neither of us had ever seen anything like it.

Posted 2012-06-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143615
Occurred: 2011-06-30 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2018-10-30 09:26 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects, Possible abduction, Missing Time

Walking along the trail near pleasant hill middle school everything seems normal. Till a brief silence i look around then feel a warm breeze in one direction on a cold night i notice a low humming noise.. I look up and notice the sky is completely dark i start freaking out and start heading back home.. I notice stars in the distance.. While directly above me is pitch black. Then i feel and hear a large pulse..several lights come on in a triangle shape then disapear.. I notice the humming noise again this time. It seems the nights sky is moving a dark large object was hovering above the night sky in the direction i was going.. I notice what i thought to be stars above me but they suddenly start pulsing on and off.. That is when i knew what i witnessed.. It kept moving past me.. i felt a warm pressure of air pushing down on me. The rear appeared to have lights..as it kept moving i realized it was a form of propulsion as the object disappeared before my eyes in the sky.. I couldnt believe what i saw.. When i returned home 4 hours have elapsed.






NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2018-11-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98085
Occurred: 2011-06-01 15:20 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-05-24 06:40 Pacific
Duration: ~40 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, OH, USA

Shape: Other


Two horseshoe crab shaped objects moving in unison made an abrupt 90 degree turn then climbed in elevation until they dissappeared

I was traveling east on Sugar grove Rd approximately .6 miles from State Route 48 I saw two objects fly out from behind a barn on the North side of the road heading South at approximately 50 to 75 feet of elevation. As both objects approached the roadway the simultaneously made sharp 90 degree turn heading East above the road, then they both climbed in altitude until they disappeared into low lying clouds.

Both objects were as best as I can describe, similar in shape to that of a horseshoe crab. The color of both was a light blue/grey that almost blended with the color of the sky. Approximate size I would judge to be 40 to 48 inches wide. I would estimate the speed of the objects during the sighting to be 80 to 100 mph. I was approximately .2 miles from the objects when the sighting occurred. The sighting lasted approximately 40 seconds.

I have seen lots of aircraft in my life being the son of a USAF veteran, but have never seen anything like this before. It left a great impression on me and is something I will never forget.

The following link that I am including is a picture that I found on the internet that shows an object that is very similar to the object that I witnessed:

http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/horseshoe-UFO-south-korea.jpg




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2013-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 65677
Occurred: 2008-09-14 10:40 Local
Reported: 2008-09-14 21:11 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Flying objects over Pleasant Hill, CA 09/14/2008

I was standing on the deck of my apartment. Airplane fly over through out the day because I live in a flight pattern, and I always look up to see. This morning I heard a plane but it was a passenger plane or that size, flying up high and as I looked at the plane, lo and behold if there were not 3 discs shaped “craft” flying behind this jet. I could see they were probably higher in altitude; they seemed to just follow along. The were not flying in a “row” they were just 3, close in proximity and one of them seemed to be going back and forth, as if “playing around.” I watched one of the “craft” fly up even higher and disappear as the other 2 continued following. Now this happened in a 15-20 second span. They were reflecting light so they were solid. Not birds, not balloons, no wings but clearly following above and behind the plane. I wanted to run and get my camera but I knew that by the time I got it they would be out of view from my vantage point. I am not crazy and actually feel crazy even writing this but it’s not the first time I have seen “ufo” activity here in this area and it is never reported on the news. I am curious as to why when I have seen objects/ufo's, that there is nothing, nothing! even in the newspaper.



Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59955
Occurred: 2007-11-10 01:14 Local
Reported: 2007-11-20 01:18 Pacific
Duration: ongoing
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

looked like several flying objects ive counted a total of ten or more looked like 2 were fleeing 7 were flying either in military form or some unknown form two groups. 2 lights that looked similar were escaping from lights and a further away were about 5 -6 very dim lights flying very erratically. I couldnt get a great picture since my camera sucks but.. hey its got me to believe




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to provide no contact information. Possible hoax. PD


Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47565
Occurred: 2005-11-08 20:00 Local
Reported: 2005-11-08 21:18 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour & going
No of observers: 3

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Circling translucent light in counter-clockwise direction, above clouds, with no apparent light source from ground.

Light, translucent with slight blue-green tinge, about size of normal full moon in mid sky, circling (round) our back yard in seemingly 300 yards diameter moving quickly - roughly at 100 mph - in counter-clockwise direction, above repeat above clouds with no apparent light beam from ground.

This event has happened multiple times, in past. No aircraft in vicinity, although few aircraft in distance from time to time. Several houses in neighborhood. Possibly 60 degrees F temperature, white clouds moving slowly and changing shape at low altitude. Appeared to be strictly a light.

Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47573
Occurred: 2005-11-08 20:00 Local
Reported: 2005-11-09 08:24 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour & going
No of observers: 3

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Circling translucent light in clockwise direction, within clouds, with no apparent light source from ground.

Light, translucent with slight blue-green tinge, about size of normal full moon in mid sky, circling (round) our back yard in seemingly 300 yards diameter moving quickly - roughly at 100 mph - in counter-clockwise direction, above repeat above clouds with no apparent light beam from ground.

This event has happened multiple times, in past. No aircraft in vicinity, although few aircraft in distance from time to time. Several houses in neighborhood. Possibly 60 degrees F temperature, white clouds moving slowly and changing shape at low altitude. Appeared to be strictly a light.

Correcting original entry: light moved clockwise and light was within clouds, ie. it circled being clearly visible below clouds, not visible above clouds, and partially visible through clouds.




NUFORC Note:

We suspect that an advertising light would have to be ruled out, before we could conclude that the witness was looking at a genuine UFO. PD


Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32105
Occurred: 2003-10-07 07:40 Local
Reported: 2003-10-07 18:48 Pacific
Duration: 20 min.
No of observers: 5

Location: Pleasant Hill, MO, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I saw 6 very bright lights perfectly spaced apart and they werent moving, when we cam back to were they were 5 min later they were gone

As we were comming home, we went across a hill and looked over in the distance. We saw 6 really bright lights. They were just sitting there. We went down that road towards the light and when we went as far as we could go, the trees were blocking it.

So we went back up to the hill were we first saw the lights, and when we got back up there, the lights were gone. It was very mysterious.



Posted 2003-10-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32163
Occurred: 2003-10-04 10:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-10-10 05:37 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, MO, USA

Shape:


While working in corn pasture My brother-in-law came upon a 10ftx10ft square of cut corn in the middle of the pasture he was working in. He stated that the square was perfectly cut all the way to the ground. No tracks of machine or people were noted.

The corn cobs had been taken off the stalk and pressed in to the ground with the cobs standing up in a pattern. He stated that it looked like an 18 or 81 but the 1 was significantly smaller than the 8. I believe that he only looked at it from that way. Looking at it from the other 2 angles places the 8 on its side and shows the symbol for infinity.



NUFORC Note:

We have requested a photograph. PD


Posted 2003-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 27054
Occurred: 2003-01-12 10:16 Local
Reported: 2003-01-12 22:23 Pacific
Duration: Several minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Big orangish-Reddish ball that just dissapeared!!!

IT was a big round bright Orangish-reddish ball, It was way bigger that an airplane, It moved around really quickly then dissapeard!!!



NUFORC Note:

This student does not indicate whether the alleged sighting occurred during daytime, or nighttime. We post the report here because of the other similar reports from California during the month of January. PD


Posted 2003-03-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25172
Occurred: 2002-09-19 19:36 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 20:46 Pacific
Duration: 1:00 min:sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

An object with a trailing white narrow line

My son and I Saw the craft with trailing white narrow line (smoke?) at twilight period. After 30 second, the white narrow line shape changed to funnel spray type and that went on for another 20 seconds. After that the object disappear.



((BEGIN ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE ABOUT LAUNCH))

Air Force Test Missile Out West
Fri Sep 20, 1:25 AM ET


VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - An Air Force missile test Thursday provided a spectacular light show seen over California and much of the West, as far away as Utah and New Mexico.

The colorful contrail was seen soon after the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off at 7:36 p.m. from an underground silo at the Vandenberg military base north of Santa Barbara.

"The smoke went up in spirals as the sun was setting and turned into an orange, amber color. It was like a flower going into bloom pretty quickly," said Simon Cox, who saw it from a restaurant terrace in Santa Barbara.

The missile traveled about 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, striking a predetermined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, the Air Force said.

Vandenberg spokeswoman Kelly Gabel said clear conditions were responsible for the spectacular light show.

"We do this two or three times a year, but because the weather was so perfect we decided to launch it early," Gabel said. As a result, people were still awake to see it, and although the sun had set, sunlight below the horizon glinted off unspent fuel particles and water droplets.

"Suddenly we're getting calls from people as far away as New Mexico who saw it and want to know what it is," Gabel said.

The mission was directed by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg and the 341th Space Wing and the 341st Space Wing, from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

The purpose was to test launch systems and the missile's accuracy and reliability.

((END ARTICLE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS))

NUFORC Note:

Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. Please see article. PD


Posted 2002-09-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 4374
Occurred: 1998-09-26 12:30 Local
Reported: 1998-08-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Landed

I walked up a hill and saw 4 lights come from the sky I ran got my camera and started to film. The battrey ran out then the UFO's disappeared.

I walked up on the hill behind my friend's house and looked towards Mt. Diablo and saw four lights fly from the sky onto to the ground. The lights were larger than five houses put together. And two of them moved apart alittle. It was an amazing sight.

Posted 1998-09-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 1451
Occurred: 1996-04-16 01:45 Local
Reported: 1996-04-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.


Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 41519
Occurred: 1988-04-12 16:00 Local
Reported: 2005-01-15 07:08 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Pleasant Hill, MO, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

UFO over Pleasant Hill

The date of occurance is approximate as this is not my sighting but a friend of the families sighting. The man was mowing is yard in the early evening hours and as he did he noticed the sky turning colors as if a storm was moving in. He looked up and over at the field by his house and saw a flyin saucer, he ran into the house and told his wife and I believe he had a child or two. He grabbed a camera and was able to get to pictures of it, as he took the camera way from his eyes the object zoomed away. I have a copy of one of those pictures.



Posted 2005-01-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101441
Occurred: 1987-10-30 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-08-23 02:40 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Pleasant Hill, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Landed

Close Encounter With Low-Flying Glowing Orange Orb

In late October of 1987 at approximately 10 pm I was walking alone to a market in a shopping center very near to my apartment in Pleasant Hill CA. This was a very quiet, tree-lined, residential neighborhood consisting of mainly condominiums and apartments. That evening I did not hear nor see anyone on the street. I was walking along the sidewalk when quite unexpectedly, I noticed a glowing orange rounded object floating in mid air at an altitude of approximately 8 feet over the sidewalk, approximately 25 feet in front of me. I don't remember seeing from what direction the object came, I just remember it appearing there. I continued to walk toward it as it slowly sailed horizontally in the air. It was floating very slowly, and I was able to walk up to it and observe it at a distance of 2-3 feet. The object at one point lost altitude and hovered at about at eye level. Now, it may have been floating in my direction from the moment I saw it, I don't recall ex! actly, I only remember that it floated just past the right side edge of the sidewalk over a patch of ice plant. The size of the object was about 12 inches in diameter; however, it was not perfectly spherical as the contour of the object appeared to fluctuate (slightly undulating) I find it strange that my memory remains a bit weak concerning what happened next, and I have no recollection of events for the rest of the evening, but I believe that the glowing ball eventually drifted to the ground across from my feet and shrank in size (a bit like a dying flame) until it disappeared upon a patch of ice plant.

At first, I thought that the glowing orb was a balloon with some kind of orange fire inside of it. I though that perhaps there were some kids nearby playing a trick on me. As the object came very close I realized that it wasn't a balloon. There seemed to be some kind of changing/moving luminescent source coming from within it. I could not explain what I was seeing AT ALL. There were no kids around, and no sounds.

I strongly remember thinking to myself that I had just witnessed something supernatural and that I should not tell anybody about it. In fact, I did not tell anybody about it for many, many years. I was eighteen years old at the time. Characterizing the experience as a supernatural event was the only way I could explain it, yet my gut sense told me it was some kind of natural/geological phenomenon, perhaps simply because it was so real. I was a part-time freshman in college at the time, and had not yet taken any physics or chemistry classes that would have improved my observation skills or at least increased my frame of reference. Looking back, I think that what I witnessed was a ball of plasma (ionized gas). I recently related the story of my experience to a professor of physics at my local community college. He was of the opinion that what I witnessed was a rare (and controversial) phenomenon known as ball lightening. A professor of chemistry at the same institution, a! fter hearing about my experience, theoretically rejected and argued against the very existence of ball lightening and offered no scientific explanation for the phenomenon I witnessed.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70181
Occurred: 1978-04-15 13:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-05-24 21:53 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Pleasant Hill, OR, USA

Shape: Unknown


Grandfather and grandson levitated in dump truck.

This happened somewhat early in my childhood. My Grandfather was doing the groundwork for the Pleasant Hill Dairy Queen. Earlier that morning my Grandmother had mentioned she had to go to the bank that is also located in Pleasant Hill. He had finished his CAT work and unhitched the trailer from the dump truck and we proceeded to move out east on hwy 58 to go home. We had gotten to the intersection of hwy 58 and Tillicum, as that street is called now, and I felt something weird in my tummy, like on a roller coaster ride. I remember saying "what happened?" My Grandpa then said, "look down there, there's your grandma." There was no seat belt laws back then so I stood up in the cab of the truck and crawled over to my grandpa's lap and looked down. I could see the top of the bank and could see my grandma's Buick going into the drive-thru at the bank. I could also see east down the hwy, we were at what I believe to be now at 200-250 ft up above the hwy. I remember seeing the top of a tractor trailer rig and the tops of a few cars. I also remember looking down on the telephone poles. This lasted maybe 10-15 seconds and then we were back on the hwy traveling at speed moving eastbound. I immediately asked my grandpa "How did we do that, what did I touch?" He responded with, "What's that?" You see it was pretty loud in those old dump trucks. I said, "How'd we go way up in the air!!?" I stood up and started trying to mess with some buttons. He then said,"Quit messing with that stuff , get up on your seat and just hold still!" It seems he had no recollection of the event. We got home a few minutes ahead of my grandma and when she arrived I excitedly told her what happened. She said,"(grandpa's name), whats he talking about?" Grandpa responded "I don't know he's been going on about being up in the air or something rather since we got back." I told her grandpa didn't believe me and I was pretty upset. When my parent's came to get me I immediately told them what had happened but I still wasn't believe! d. I can remember that day vividly. Sadly my grandpa passed away in 1998. I used to ask him about that day when stuff like that came up. He never recalled that experience. I don't know what happened that day but it was the first of several unexplained event's in my life. Just thought I would share.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181756
Occurred: 1976-02-15 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-05-30 16:32 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Pleasant Hill, AL, USA
Location details: The location marked on the road is approximate. We were driving from Selma to Greenville.

Shape: Unknown
Color: White Light
Estimated Size: Apparent diameter of the moon at 50-100 yards.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Since we were traveling in an overal SSE direction, the object was most likely roughly NNW of the ca
Angle of Elevation: 50
Closest Distance: 50-100 yards.
Estimated Speed: 60 mph
Characteristics: Emitted beams

Bright white light roughly the same apparent size as the moon was following our car. It emitted a rod of red light then vanished.

I was riding in the back seat of the car with my siblings, with my parents in the front. We were driving at night on a country road at night over relatively flat terrain. I was absent-mindedly looking out the rear window of the car and watching what I thought was the moon as it appeared to follow us. The sky was low overcast, and the shape of what was making the light was somewhat obscured, but the general size and fuzzy shape of it were such that I assumed without any hesitation that it was the moon. Feeling bored, I turned around and looked out the driver's-side passenger window and saw another light of the same size at 90 degrees to what I had just seen. I have a sense that I got enough of a glimpse through the clouds that I was sure it was the moon, which is why I listed only one craft. But while this is one of the clearest memories of my life, I cannot remember with certainty whether I actually saw any lunar features or not. In any case, I knew that there couldn't be two moons.

I should add that it only took a couple of seconds or so for me to turn around and look out the passenger window. We were driving down a country road at a minimum of 55 miles per hour. So to see this second light positioned where it was, my father would have needed to make a dangerously (impossibly?) fast turn that would have tossed all of us around. (No seat belts on---this was the 70s!) This is all reasoning after the fact. At the time it happened it was just perceptually/intuitively obvious that they couldn't both be the same light.

I stared at the light outside the passenger window for a second or two, and then spun around quickly to look out the rear window again. The light was still there moving behind or inside the clouds, staying at the same angular position to the car as it had. After no more than a few seconds, a red object shot out from the white object in the clouds, I briefly got a good look at the red object and then both it and the white light disappeared.

The red object shot out to the left and downward at about -20 degrees. From front to back it was roughly 1/2 to 2/3 the diameter of the white light. It was very simple and very beautiful, but still probably the strangest thing I have ever seen. It seemed meteor-like, but it's outline was perfectly sharp and geometrically perfect, even though it seemed to be nothing more than light. The leading part was a circle or sphere, with two "rods" trailing behind. The rods joined the sphere at tangents that could be drawn by drawing a line at 90 degrees to each rod and passing through the center of the circle. The rods were equal in length. Using the length of the red object as a length of measure, it and the white light disappeared instantly when the red object was 1-3 lengths away from the white one. There was no sense whatsoever of them accelerating away, they just instantaneously vanished from sight.

The event was purely visual with no sounds, disturbances to the vehicle, etc.. My family wasn't aware of anything until I shouted "I just saw a UFO!" I don't remember either any marked interest or disbelief on their part.





Posted 2024-06-11