NUFORC UFO Sighting 176067
Occurred: 2023-06-02 22:15 Local
Reported: 2023-06-02 23:12 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa clara, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron


Huge chevron of lights

Saw a huge chevron shape of multiple reddish-orange colored lights fly over from west to east. 5-10 seconds. Maybe 2-3 miles wide. No sound. Appeared to be out in space. Not starlink.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172739
Occurred: 2022-10-28 21:30 Local
Reported: 2022-10-28 21:49 Pacific
Duration: about 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA
Location details: Home

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

A flashing and big blue colored objects (with red in the edges) flies over the sky quickly

It happened around 9:30 pm. It's big and shinning, no tail is observed. The object does not have a regular shape, not round, lights shed in different directions and different lengths. It looks mostly blue, flying very fast, I am not able to take a photo. It goes from San Jose, flying toward Mountain View.

I was at home with doors closed. No sound was heard.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172609
Occurred: 2022-10-27 02:08 Local
Reported: 2022-10-27 16:31 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford, KY, USA
Location details: Boonedocks at Cedar Creek Lake

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects

Flashing round light leaves trail in sky

2 security cameras outside RV; back camera loses power while front camera catches a UFO with a white blinking light that leaves a trail as it Flies across lake. Same looking UFO as on first video I submitted a couple days ago.




Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172643
Occurred: 2022-10-25 03:05 Local
Reported: 2022-10-25 21:20 Pacific
Duration: 5 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford, KY, USA
Location details: Cedar creek lake

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted

Via security camera

Checked security cameras due to alert via email. @ 0305, loud noises were heard on the camera that i can only describe as those I've heard in movies regarding alien spacecrafts (duration about 30 seconds). Then the camera lost power and immediately regained power and returned to its front position which faces over lake. Next, same loud noises started again and a UFO was seen crossing lake. It blinked a white light about every 2 seconds. It seemed too fast to be airplane, and did not blink any other color lights. I have not transfered video footage to phone yet.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172641
Occurred: 2022-10-25 03:05 Local
Reported: 2022-10-25 21:40 Pacific
Duration: 10 min including 2 camera


Location: Stanford, KY, USA
Location details: Cedar creek lake

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted

Refer to video




Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171475
Occurred: 2022-08-28 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-08-29 23:17 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford, KY, USA
Location details: Clear night

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Animals reacted

We was out riding our ATV through the field and seen something strange flying toward us then slowly flew away

We was out riding our ATV through the field I had my buddy with me. I looked up at the sky and seen something bring like the sun but wasn't as big and I ask him what is that he said idk. This light was probably about a mile away then it stopped over my house and just stayed there for a minute. After a few minutes it started flying tord our direction that's when I seen the aircraft it was about 150 ft about us it was really bright but not so bright it hurt your eyes it kinda had a glow but you could see the aircraft was in the shape of a triangle. Once it got over top of us it never stopped it just kept going then disappeared off in the distance after about 20 minute time span.

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151124
Occurred: 2019-11-27 07:57 Local
Reported: 2019-11-27 08:06 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object



Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137689
Occurred: 2017-12-10 18:00 Local
Reported: 2017-12-10 18:17 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Blue/green blinking noiseless light stops in mid-air and gains altitude, turns white/red and flies away quickly.

Looked up to see flashing blue/green light moving overhead, the light flashed about once a second. After observing for a few seconds it stopped in mid air and flew straight up, turning white with a red light just below it. After flying up a distance it stopped and flew back the way it came at a fast speed, changing from white back into blinking blue/green. It disappeared momentarily and reappeared a few seconds later a little farther, about 6 miles away. It hovered high up still blinking for about 20-30 seconds and then vanished. No noise was heard.

Posted 2017-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 134362
Occurred: 2017-05-10 22:00 Local
Reported: 2017-05-31 20:09 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Stanford, WA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Animals reacted

Pink orb Washington state

I am writing on behalf of my brother. He had a close encounter with a UFO.

He was out walking his dog and noticed a pink orb in the sky. It flew rapidly toward him and stopped right over him. He said he almost could touch the thing, and was close enough to it to see lights and structures inside the orb.

He raised his hand to touch it, and it immediately flew off. He wasn't scared but more curious than anything. Apparently the dog freaked out though. The most interesting thing is that I too saw pink rosey orbs on that same evening, the story of which I've already posted on this site, along with a photo.

He lives in Washington state, I live in Arizona. We compared stories and it sounds like exactly the same UFO.

Lastly you should know that I haven't spoken with my brother in over two years. He mentioned his encounter to our Mom, and I had to call him to see if we had seen the same thing. I think we may have. Very strange stuff.

Posted 2017-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131406
Occurred: 2016-11-22 21:00 Local
Reported: 2016-11-22 09:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, UT, USA

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

Southern Utah sceptic reporting cloaking UFO in hopes someone else saw it

Sometime between 9pm and 11 o'clock pm, I saw this semi close or low to the ground un-identified flying object. The UFO was silent and had three dim lights in a straight row. Visually it appeared about the size of a dime or nickel making this my first and closest appearance. I know it wasn't a plane as its proximity to the ground would have been audible. It seemed to cloak rather than speed off. It went dark in a area of clear sky well below any horizon. Not a satellite.

My explanation for this is usually a reflection from the moving horizon sun on a satellite. I can't use this excuse here.

Too cold outside to be reasonably a drone user. Too high as well. It was 52 degrees outside. It had rained that morning with thunder and lightning.

Posted 2016-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131435
Occurred: 2016-11-22 21:00 Local
Reported: 2016-11-23 19:33 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, UT, USA

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

Southern Utah sceptic reporting cloaking UFO in hopes someone else saw it

Sometime between 9pm and 11 o'clock pm, I saw this semi close or low to the ground un-identified flying object. The UFO was silent and had three dim lights in a straight row. Visually it appeared about the size of a dime or nickel making this my first and closest appearance. I know it wasn't a plane as it's proximity to the ground would have been audible. It seemed to cloak rather than speed off. It went dark in a area of clear sky well below any horizon. Not a satellite. My explanation for this is usually a reflection from the moving horizon sun on a satellite. I can't use this excuse here. Too cold outside to be reasonably a drone user. Too high as well. It was 52 degrees outside. It had rained that morning with thunder and lightning.

Posted 2016-12-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174224
Occurred: 2015-07-05 16:21 Local
Reported: 2023-01-31 15:12 Pacific
Duration: 20 min
No of observers: 1000

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA
Location details: Over parking area of 49'rs stadium before the grateful dead show.

Shape: Formation


Two Clouds one a human skull, the other a human skull with hair and beard

Prior to these appearing, a small plane created a visual smoke effect of a peace sign and a lightning bolt by releasing smoke and making several maneuvers. After these smoke effects were broken up and dissipated but still remnant, after about 20 minutes. These two fairly large clouds were just hanging out right around where the peace sign was. The details were incredible, every detail of human skulls, with eyes. Every part of each cloud was a significant feature, nothing was obscure and cloudlike except they appeared as clouds in every way with the light, shadow and color. They appeared to be living, with facial expression and eye movements. The grateful dead were playing the stadium a few hours later. I did not discuss this with others there at the time or notice if others were observing them. I figured that this is what those deadheads out in California figured out and it all made sense.
I didn't get a picture, but there were thousands of pedestrians there that all could have seen the same thing. Pictures may exist by others.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114252
Occurred: 2014-10-02 16:53 Local
Reported: 2014-10-05 13:57 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Stanford, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder


UFO Over Stanford University's Hoover Tower

On Thursday, October 2, 2014, at 4:53pm, Pacific Daylight Time, I snapped the photo above of Stanford University's Hoover Tower from within the Stanford Quad. I was unaware of anything unusual at the time, and was not aware of the strange object which appears in the photo between the two left-most trees. I first saw both the photo as a whole, and the strange object in the photo, when I offloaded the photos from my camera onto my home computer on Saturday, October 4, 2014. The camera which took the photo is an Olympus Model VR-320, "HD 12.5x Super Wide, 14 Megapixel", although I had it set on a relatively low resolution, so as to save space and be able to snap more photos during my trip to California.



NUFORC Note:

Bird with wings folded. PD


Posted 2014-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111450
Occurred: 2014-07-11 05:00 Local
Reported: 2014-07-12 20:52 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour


Location: Santa Clara, NM, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

A light was situated just east of Santa Clara, NM. I first noticed it from Vaughn, NM, I noticed a light high in the sky in the direction of Santa Clara, the light seemed stationary but would turn around in circles like a spotlight searching the area.

The light continued from that location for as long as it took to drive to Santa Clara.

It was just breaking daylight and I could tell as I neared Santa Clara that the light emitting UFO was just above and to the east of Santa Clara.

When the sky became visible blue color I could see the object was still there shining its light.

It was many thousands of feet in the air but appeared to be circular shapes, it was still in the sky when I left the area. Too small to capture on my camera.






NUFORC Note:

We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD


Posted 2014-07-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 110108
Occurred: 2014-06-10 00:00 Local
Reported: 2014-06-10 00:35 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Green light flying from one direction then another changes to red and back green.

I was watching TV at home when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a green light, what caught my attention is the fact that it went from flying towards the right to the opposite direction in seconds. It would go towards righr, then zip going up, then down, back to one direction and another. I was able to record it but because it was dark it's hard to see its direction change but you can still notice it. It went from solid red, to mix of red and greem, to solid green. In the recordings I caught it changing colors and directions. It ended up flying behind a palm tree then out of visible sight.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2014-06-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109045
Occurred: 2014-04-29 20:30 Local
Reported: 2014-04-29 20:58 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Stanford, CA, USA

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

Large, wavering, brightly lit balls above East Bay. These objects would stay in place for large periods of time before beginning to move away, getting dimmer as they did this.

Repeatedly observed in different places over East Bay. The objects were like satellites, but they stayed in one place for long periods of time.

Posted 2014-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106140
Occurred: 2014-01-01 00:20 Local
Reported: 2014-01-08 19:09 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects

Three fiery orange-red orbs, all seen about 5 minutes apart, ascended into space on a near vertical path.

At midnight I was having a cigarette with one of my friends in front of my house. A car had just skidded off the road into the side of my neighbor's house not far away. It was New Year’s Eve and we listened to people in the area setting off fireworks, but none were visible from my street. We were watching the antics with the police and tow truck for a while.

At about 12:15 AM, my friend pointed out a bright orb that had just appeared in the sky to the west. The light cast off of the object was far more intense than any airplanes or helicopters we've ever seen in the skies, so we caught it all on our phones' video cameras. The light from the object had a much deeper amber-red hue to it, which really caught our attention. It traveled a long, curved path and passed overhead. The object then ascended vertically at a higher speed, until it was it was out of sight completely.

About 5 minutes later I spotted a second object (matching the description of the first) suddenly appear in the sky, as if it materialized out of thin air. It eventually flew straight up into the sky like the first, until it could no longer be seen. A few minutes later a third one had appeared, hovered, ascended, and went out of sight. All three objects were slow moving, until they changed courses up to the sky and sped up significantly. We didn't know what to make of the whole scene in the sky, and we would have filed a report sooner if we had the first clue how to go about doing so. At least we got some videos of them! It was cool to see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ43c0x-gyI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKrQiA8yaa4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5kyXIwr9U

Posted 2014-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104960
Occurred: 2013-11-30 17:30 Local
Reported: 2013-11-30 15:20 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford, KY, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Seen round saucer in sky for about 20 mins then it just poofed and gone had white bright lights all around it

Girl friend looked up and ask what that was in the sky i looked it was round like a saucer and had white bright lights we kept looking then it just disapeared had to be a ufo




NUFORC Note:

We suspect an evening sighting, and have amended the time above, to reflect that fact. We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD


Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102112
Occurred: 2013-08-16 08:00 Local
Reported: 2013-09-17 17:07 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Got out of car to stretch my back after dropping my wife off at work, where she runs a project as a program coordinator at the local college.

I looked up and spotted the disk gliding along against regular flight lanes. Of both the San Jose Airport & the Sf Airport, at arms length holding a battery of an Ear Aid was about the same size. The object turned slightly with the suns reflection glistening off of it. It was at this time it went off In a zig zag pattern and disappeared into the horizon, there were few clouds and extremely blue skies.

Posted 2013-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94621
Occurred: 2012-11-18 18:00 Local
Reported: 2012-11-18 22:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Clara, UT, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Light that changed color from blue to green & abruptly changed at a high rate of speed.

Outside of Santa Clara River Reserve. Large blue light that changed to green and back to blue on multiple occasions. Light was seen traveling at a high rate of speed into the sky & back down to the horizon, then horizontal along the cliff faces of west Snow Canyon State Park. Light would change direction at a 45 degree angle. Disappeared mid-sky. Three witnesses and video.



Posted 2012-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88892
Occurred: 2012-05-11 19:30 Local
Reported: 2012-05-11 10:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Pacheco Pass/Hwy 152, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


5/11/12 19:30 Hovering over Pacheco Pass Hwy 152 Flying object-Shiney-8-10 CARS PULLED OFF LOOKING TO SKY

I was driving to work on Hwy 152-Pacheco Pass when I noticed something in the sky above highway by the Dowdy Park entrance. I thought it might be a CHP radar/air patrolling for speeders. I was trying to see the color {if it was black & white}but could not tell. It was so shiny & bright. I kept saying to myself "what the hell is that??" It was flying slow like a helicopter would, kinda hoovering over the highway. But then I thought that it probably wasn't CHP because it did not stay over the highway; it flew towards the mountains on my right. When I came up to Casa de Fruita, there were at least 8 cars along that stretch that had pulled over. Everyone was looking up to the sky; many taking pictures. That was so weird. I thought no more of it. When I got to work in Morgan Hill, I said to a co worker how odd it was about all these cars that were pulled off the road, looking to the sky. That is when she told me about recent sightings of possible UFO's over Pache! co Pass. Well...I saw it too. I have goose bumps.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88897
Occurred: 2012-05-11 07:45 Local
Reported: 2012-05-11 11:35 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes


Location: Pacheco Pass, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


05-11-2r012 pacheco pass object on military vector.

Rectangle shaped highly reflective object floated over Pacheco State Park. Object was silent. No visible propulsion. Object moved with wind like a weather baloon but also manuvered into the WNW wind direction. Object continuously rotated slowly. After moving around Park area it rapidly moved south east along Diablo Range out of sight. No airliners were on this vector to oakland during event. The vortac is 112.6 PXN and at 301 degrees. Object originally spotted at 745am 6.5 miles south south of CATHE on IR203 military vector.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88451
Occurred: 2012-04-16 07:48 Local
Reported: 2012-04-16 22:29 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Pacheco Pass, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


UFO over Pacheco Pass

I was driving on Pacheco Pass this morning and saw dozens of cars on both sides of the road pulled over taking pictures of something. I pulled over a few minutes later, at 7:48 am and got out of the car. It looked like a giant white triangle hovering high up in the sky not moving at all. It definitely wasn't a weather balloon as it didn't budge with the wind at all. There was also a shiny object that moved vertical from the area of the object towards the opposite direction. I watched for a few minutes and couldn't get a clear picture with my phone so got back into my car. When I looked back about 5 miles later, I couldn't see it any longer from where I was.



Posted 2012-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87913
Occurred: 2012-03-20 23:30 Local
Reported: 2012-03-20 23:43 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light


Constant glow fast moving object faster above the jet liners. slower than meteor and much faster than jets. some times moving in acute angles at a very high speed. No tails or smoke or trials left.






NUFORC Note:

We assume an evening sighting, and we have amended the time above. PD


Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87533
Occurred: 2012-03-08 19:35 Local
Reported: 2012-03-08 00:39 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Seven bright crafts "ufo's" seemed to dance in the Calif Sky last night

Time was 19:35 pst My mom and I were just looking att just how clear the night was and the north star was so very bright, and then whagt happened next was something that My mom and i have wanted to happen all our lives and it finally happened, I real UFO sighting!!

We looked straight up and one craft was all alone and it was a very bright ball of light that looked like it had wings on it but they were'nt wings of course, but the had that appearance to them, Like wings flashing made of light.

Then as we watched this craft travel from north to the south toward the Santa Cruz, Ca. mountains 6 others joined in from almost nowhere, they just lit up and then made shapes triangle, then what looked like the big dipper, and two of the seven kept joining together to make one and then broke apart again, as these 7 crafts flew away to the mountains they kind of made different shapes, like they were putting on a show for us. We are very confused and unsure of how or just! what to feel. We will never forget this event ever!!

Posted 2012-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80908
Occurred: 2011-04-17 01:45 Local
Reported: 2011-04-17 02:17 Pacific
Duration: 2.0
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

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

Each circular light/object moved slowly - just below cloud ceiling going from the north sky (measured 298-300 degrees NW- on my i phone compass- my home faces 265 degrees west. Each object followed the same arch/path. Each turned due west toward costal mountains almost exactly alligned with my home, but west of me. Their lights did not strob, the color was a light pink, they were absolutely silent even as they arched overhead. The incident was reported to the local police as the 3rd object appeared- while the event was occurring. Each faded into the cloud cover after they made the turn west.

Posted 2011-05-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111764
Occurred: 2011-03-22 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-07-21 21:16 Pacific
Duration: 25 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Stanford, KY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 red triangle shaped pulsating lights

Three red triangular pulsating lights...huge and no noise at all.

Changed shape from triangle to frown face to lights being in a straight line going from 3 red lights to several red lights some blinking and some not. Was looking up at sky as sun was going down. One minute it wasn't there, then it was.

Never seen anything like it and none since.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2014-07-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 72183
Occurred: 2009-09-08 20:18 Local
Reported: 2009-09-09 08:17 Pacific
Duration: 20+ seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


brilliant mercury-sized light moving irratically at high speed over Santa Cruz mountains

At 20:18 hours my wife and I were sitting in the back yard looking to skies in the south, watching commercial aircraft flying on approach to SFO.

We saw what we first thought to be the lights of an airliner, but then noticed there were no red, green, or strobe lights on the moving object, just a very bright, white light moving initially in a straight line but at greatly varying speeds.

My wife and I both got up at the same time asking aloud, "What the hell is that?", when the object darted upward at a 45-degree angle, again, at a very high rate of speed, and then slowed, and appeared to do an inverted loop.

The object then moved quite erratically, and then did an “infinity” figure 8 maneuver before appearing to spin out of control at a 45-degree angle downward and then disappearing behind the silhouette of the Santa Cruz mountains.

We observed the object for AT LEAST 20 seconds.

Object appeared to be 30-35 miles away (no real way of telliing).

At no time did the intensity of the light (which was the spherical object) fade.

Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71568
Occurred: 2009-08-01 13:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-08-09 04:21 Pacific
Duration: 20 mln
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Santa Clara cal two small object flashing over valley my be mapping us.

Me and my son were down town Santa Clara cal when we were getting back in to my car. He told me what is that over head I look up and saw what look like two 6 foot balloons floating together about 10ft apart. They were dark in color and shape like a peanut. They both were flashing on the top as if sun light was reflecting off them both objects seem to wobble and flash at the same time. When l saw the objects they were at least 100ft in the sky moving around 5 to 10 miles hr. I told my son that they were baloons tide together. Soon they were out of sight I drove my car to get a better look at them. As they were headed to the Santa Cruz mountains. The sky was very clear that day we got out of the car to take a look as they travel across the valley they both were still 20 to 30 ft apart soon they look like two bright stars. All at once they flew together making one object it lasted for about 3:min to 4:min one took off stright up around 15 thousand ft while the ! other object stood in one place, soon it shot upwards to meet the other oject and was gone.




NUFORC Note:

Source of the report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-08-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70630
Occurred: 2009-06-21 12:00 Local
Reported: 2009-06-22 08:39 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


I saw a very bright flashing light as big and bright as Venus moving from the west to the east very slowly. The light would flash bright silvery-white then pulsate from the size and brightness of Venus to a pinhead. As this was happening a group of 5 lights moving from the south to the north crossed in front of the bright flashing light. The lights were at different altitudes. The 5 lights were in a group of 3 with 2 lights off to the side.The objects made no sound. The 3 were making circles around each other as they moved. All of a sudden the 5 lights blinked off as did the very bright pulsating light. I figured the big bright light was at about 10,000ft and the 5 others were at about 8,000ft. I see a lot of planes in the sky from the San Francisco and Oakland Airport flying over head and they are that altitude judging from when they turn off their landing lights. This sighting took place in Santa Clara, California.



Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69401
Occurred: 2009-03-26 09:25 Local
Reported: 2009-03-26 21:35 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec. - 1min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Bright single light over santa cruz mountians with military jet following it.

From a distance my girlfriend and I were outside and noticed a airplane over the Santa Cruz Mountians. In front of the plane "which was very visable" their was a white/yellow light in front of it. We could hear the goverment type JET's noise but only one. The other light then seemed to slowly be speeding up and then we watched the JET speed up and see a large flames behiend the jet. "like when the blew angles use their afterburners". The other light started speeding off faster than the Jet could keep up. And was quickly no longer visable. The jet still seemed to be following or escorting it. After that i also noticed that the San Jose airport was using a different landing path for the comercial airlines "which i know they do during bad weather, because they fly right over my house only when it it raining" Which it was Clear. This event was very odd due to i could tell that their was a military jet behiend the light. but could not tell what type of light and or shape it was.



Posted 2009-04-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66816
Occurred: 2008-11-09 19:00 Local
Reported: 2008-11-09 19:48 Pacific
Duration: 8-12minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron


Dark, low-flying object over Silicon Valley.

An unlit aircraft flying south (passed through Lyra).

Shaped like a black hang glider with a slightly lighter tint on leading edge.

Size was about 2x the moon.

Just after sunset @ approx 19:00hrs PST.

No lights on vehicle and no sound.

Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64089
Occurred: 2008-06-22 23:00 Local
Reported: 2008-06-23 16:34 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle


Two lights moving very fast high in the night sky

11pm Sunday night in Santa Clara California. Two round orange lights way up in the sky moving very fast from the south to the north. I saw the lights for about six seconds. The lights were side by side. One was moving ahead then behind as they moved. No sound but very high in the sky and not very bright. There was one airplane moving in the sky but it was going to the southwest and moving normally.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2008-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66895
Occurred: 2008-06-22 11:00 Local
Reported: 2008-11-14 09:50 Pacific
Duration: six seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

two lights moving very fast high in the night sky on June 22,2008

I was looking through the sightings on this site and came across a report from June 22/2008 that was posted on 7/5/08. What was described is exactly what I that night. So I guess I want to verify what the other person saw that night . I saw two lights moving high in the night sky moving very fast for about six seconds. The lights were side by side in parallel. The light on the right was moving ahead then behind as they moved from the south to the north. The lights were not very bright. I was glad to read that someone else had seen the same thing that I did from the same city and at the same time. The lights were a reddish-orange color and made no sound.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63988
Occurred: 2008-06-09 15:15 Local
Reported: 2008-06-19 15:51 Pacific
Duration: 5minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Oval


White oval object hovered high in the sky for about three minutes and then moved with increasingly high speed towards the Lick observatory and disappeared.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2008-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60479
Occurred: 2007-12-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2007-12-24 08:48 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Martin, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

4-5 tight circle red-white-green-blue BRIGHT lights over Morgan Hill

Around 9:00pm last evening, I was looking out my window when I saw a very bright series of lights, somewhat in the shape of a tight circle. You couldn’t see any space in between the lights at all. It didn’t garner my attention initially since the final approach corridor for San Jose International Airport is over that general area. But then I started to realize that it was much brighter than aircraft lights and didn’t have anti-collision lights, something that I can normally see on planes all the way to San Jose. As I grew more curious, I realized it was not moving and seemed to be pretty low in the sky. Ok, a helicopter, I thought. However, there is a municipal airport about 3 miles away from me and I am familiar with all sorts of helicopters as that is where they normally stage aircraft for fighting the big wildfires up in the hills from me. Ok, so what is it? I’m officially very curious at this point and do a line-of-sight to see if it is just moving very slowly. Nope. Not moving. The lights were what had my attention, as I’m watching I’m seeing white lights, a large red one in the center, and occasionally the flickering green or blue. They were twinkling like starlight, but they were much larger than stars, lower in the sky than stars (fog was coming in over the hills) and so much brighter! So now I’m thinking they must be having some sort of light show on El Toro Mountain, the large cone-shaped hill that most people think Morgan Hill got its name. But that explanation didn’t sit well with me, it was truly very, very bright lights. Then, as I’m watching, the series of lights cut in half, like someone had put up a card in my viewing and cut off the lower half of the object. So now I’m telling myself, yes, it is a show on El Toro and they’re making their way to the other side of the hill, where I can no longer see them. However, at that point, the lights dimmed greatly and it zipped off at a high rate of speed to the north. Being familiar with the landing approaches of! aircraf t to San Jose, it was not on the flight path and the lights now were far dimmer than normal aircraft and there was still no anti-collision lights. It was also much faster than any aircraft I’ve seen go down the corridor. I’ve been pouring over the internet and newspapers this morning to see if anyone else reported something odd in the sky, because I am certainly curious to know what it was. I couldn’t have been the only person admiring the night sky last night, and the object seemed to be over Morgan Hill and within sight of the 101 highway. Thank you for the opportunity to report this (can’t wait to see what my IT guy thinks when he sees “UFO reporting form” in my internet search queries).



Posted 2008-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57174
Occurred: 2007-06-19 22:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-06-19 23:37 Pacific
Duration: About 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two lights flying close together and then fading away.

I was out in my backyard taking in the fresh air when I spotted two moving lights in the sky. They looked just like bright stars, or air planes without the blinking lights. One was flying behind the other, both at about the speed of an air plane. If you held your fingers up to the sky, they were about a 4 1/2 inches apart. They kept at about that same distance moving South East. Then, over a period of about 5 seconds, they both faded away.






NUFORC Note:

Space Shuttle w/ ISS?? PD


Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54540
Occurred: 2007-01-03 16:40 Local
Reported: 2007-01-06 19:32 Pacific
Duration: 3 min
No of observers: 2

Location: San Martin, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

bright light strait up in clear blue sky,did not move or blink,very noticeable.

we saw a bright white object twice the size of venus strait up in the sky 20 minutes before the sun set. it did not twinkle, it appeared to be reflecting sunlight.we watched it for about three minutes in which time it did not move or change at all. then it dimmed almost completely,and looked like a wisp of white smoke,reappeared for 15 seconds and dimmed out.during the whole episode it never moved at all,the best we can figure is that it may have been a geo synchronus sattelite,can these be seen in broad daylight?

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53930
Occurred: 2006-12-11 19:40 Local
Reported: 2006-12-11 18:53 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, UT, USA

Shape: Circle


green ball of light streaking across the night sky

A large green ball of light streaked briefly overhead from east to west for a duration of about 3 seconds.

Distance above us was hard to tell, though it seemed near and was fairly large, not like a falling star, but nearly 10 times larger than they appear.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53900
Occurred: 2006-11-28 18:30 Local
Reported: 2006-12-09 19:26 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Stanford, KY, USA

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

Very fast moving greenish lights,not from this world.

I was heading South on US27 after work. I saw 1 object in the clouds as I went up a steep hill on US27. The object move from the west to the east left to right. It was a strange shade of green? IT MOVED VERY FAST. LIKE NOTHING FROM THIS PLANET. NO SOUND JUST SILENT AND VERY VERY FAST. ALSO AFTER I SAW THIS I HAVE TALKED TO TWO(2) MORE THAT SAW IT WHEN I DID.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-12-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50774
Occurred: 2006-05-28 20:00 Local
Reported: 2006-05-31 02:57 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Fast moving gliding oval shaped object in the sky just before Great America Parkway Fireworks event on Sunday May 28, 2006.

I tend to think that this was a man made object - I do not believe in UFOs. I could have dismissed this as some kind of balloon - except that something struck me odd.

This was some kind of oval shaped object - perhaps the closest thing I can think of is football (american). No visible things protruding outside the eliptical, oval shell shape. I can't remember the color, but I think it was sort of greyish. This thing was so benign and innocent that you would see it but would not even notice it.

So naturally fitting in the sky.

I realized that there were three things odd - (1) it was high in the sky must be roughly somewhere between 1000 ft to 10000 ft - a plane flew from San Jose airport and its size and height was of the comparable order. So, I thought it perhaps is not a balloon as I have not seen balloons of plane sizes. (2) It was moving at an incredible thing. It did not look like any object having an engine - no audible noise, no smoke trail, and it was sort of gliding - something like an orphan kite. But it was going from west to east, and speed seemed 10 times faster than a jet. It cleared the whole sky in my view in less than 15 seconds, while I think a plane would have taken at least 2 minues or so. (3) towards the end it was so far that I would have lost it anyway but then it sort of started gaining altitude. Significant gain in about a couple of seconds. If it was not for logically thinking about these things, I would have completely ignored and not even remembered about this.

I was with my Dad. As I felt something odd about this object, I pointed it to my dad. He saw this as well. I pointed to him my logical inconsistency of speed - he seemed to agree. We were in Great America Parkway waiting for the fireworks when this happened. Time must be between 8:00 to 8:30pm. There must be a few thousand people right there looking into the sky. I did not talk to any one, but I was hoping that someone else saw it. I surfed web to see any information, tried to dismiss it as some sort of balloon. But could not find any conclussive evidence either way. Nor did find any one else mentioning this.

So I decided to report it. If there are more people who saw this and can conclussively identify this as man made object, I would be thankful.

This would solve the puzzle and satisfy my curiosity.

Please note that I am not an expert on aircrafts, balloons, natural phenomenon, or any other such things that could explain many of the so called UFO sightings.

I know this, it was no optical illusion as it was a solid object. It was not any of the usual kind aircraft with wings etc.. as this object had nothing protruding out of its shell.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45175
Occurred: 2005-06-30 17:35 Local
Reported: 2005-07-19 19:03 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Black disk shaped object motionless observing airport free falls and wobbles back up and vanishes.

Thursday 6/30/05 at around 5:35 pm, I was walking toward my car in the parking lot at work when I saw what looked to me like a round black object standing motionless high in the sky south east above the San Jose airport. I was looking up at an angle 135-140 degrees, considering straight up to be 180 degrees. To give an estimate of the size of the object in view, it would compare to that of holding up a cherry seed between ones thumb and forefinger at arms length. Now I can not begin to calculate its true size not knowing how high and the miles away the object was from where I stood. A moderate breeze was blowing toward the east. I assumed it could be a large weather balloon. Then after what seemed like a minute had passed, this round black object suddenly rotated revealing a disk or saucer shape. Within seconds of this new transformation, I began to notice a bright white flash every couple of seconds or so but randomly and not consistant. Then it began to free fall downward but in a way resembling a leaf falling from off a tree limb. Twice I saw the bottom part, round and circular, tilt toward my direction so that I could see a faint orange glow or gold aura , even looked like it was sparkling somewhat . The object descended straight downward about a hand length. Then it hovered about 3 seconds before shooting upward like that of watching a bumble bee in flight. By this time I pretty much ruled out the notion of it being a large balloon. I heard a roar of a jet plane taking off from the San Jose Airport but could not see the plane until it got to a certain height heading northwest in my general direction. The large jet aircraft came into view as it ascended upward. I could now compare this unidentified object to the jet plane. The object was indeed considerably farther up and toward the south east than I had previously thought. The large commercial jet plane as it went overhead just slightly to the east of my position was the length of my thumbnail at arms length. After the Jet plane was nearly out of sight toward the northwest, this black disk shaped object currently hovering high up in the sky south east of the airport took off so rapidy that it vanished in just two seconds. I continued looking and then the object or another disk object reappeared out of no where for three seconds and then it vanished in thin air and did not reappear. I don't know what I just witnessed for nearly 2 minutes, but it is certainly a mystery to me that I am anxious for it to be solved!




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42047
Occurred: 2005-02-15 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-02-21 13:08 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford, KY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

My son and I witnessed a circle of pale green lights drop from one point in the sky to another and disappear.

My 14-year-old son and I were driving home home from a basketball game. In a relatively sparsely populated area about 5 miles south of Stanford on US 27 we witnessed a pale green circle of lights rapidly drop from the sky and disappear behind a low cloud. It was so fast that by the time my son excitedly asked "What was that?" it was gone. I turned to him and said, "You saw it too?!" The object was in the southeastern part of the sky.



Posted 2005-02-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42301
Occurred: 2004-11-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-02-24 22:26 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Mute, flying object shoots straight up into the sky, then falls back down to leave the same way it came.

I was standing outside of my house around 22:00 and noticed this flying object getting closer and closer to me. It wasn't flying very fast, and slowed down even more when it was right above my head I could not hear a single sound of an engine or sound waves of any kind.

All of a sudden, it picked up speed and raised its altitude quite jurastically, almost like a roller coaster ride...just straight up. When I thought it was long gone, it came back down in the same exact path as it had gone up. It returned to the same position above my headm then left again, in the same path as it had come(NW). At that point, I had no idea what I had just seen.

I ran into the house to see if someone could come out fast enough to witness what I had just seen. Sure enough when I got back outside, it was long gone.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39495
Occurred: 2004-09-26 20:43 Local
Reported: 2004-09-26 21:08 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

A very bright multi colored light that shot across the sky and then vanished.

We just returned from dinner and as we were walking up the driveway i looked down the street and in the sky myself and my girlfriend saw a light go from bright white to blue to red in a long streak which lasted for just over 1 second. it is hard to say how long in distance the streak was but it may have been a half mile in length. I know for a fact that this was no shooting star because i have seen many myself. this was very fast and the way it changed colors and just dissapeared so quickly and the other thing was that it seemed to be close to me in distance. being at night it may have been a few miles away. it occured so fast that i couldnt see any shape but it had no sound to identify with.



Posted 2004-09-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62881
Occurred: 2004-04-15 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-04-24 20:42 Pacific
Duration: 3min
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Teardrop shaped ufo, no lights, goldish glint, two witnesses, and the ufo accelerated away south east.

Two of my friends and I were driving north on Pruneridge in Santa Clara in a bronco with its back shell removed. I was lying in the back seat looking up at the stars. I noticed a teardrop shaped object above me, there were no bright or blinking lights, just a orange gold glint (about the same color as the streetlights). I yelled to my friends to look at what at what at I was seeing, after a bit of yelling, my friend who was in the front passenger side came back to where I was and saw the UFO as well. When my friend in the back with me announces he could see it too, my friend who was driving pulled over. The UFO hung above us for about 5 sec. more, and then "zoomed" away South-East.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31975
Occurred: 2003-09-26 18:30 Local
Reported: 2003-10-01 11:09 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


Observed a spherical object moving at high speed, in a straight course from southest to northwest. The object appeared to be round in shape and moved with no sound whatsoever. There were no trail marks to indicate that it might be an aircraft.

The object gave off a metallic white-blue color. After I observed the object for about 15 seconds it just disappeared.



Posted 2003-10-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 29753
Occurred: 2003-07-15 10:55 Local
Reported: 2003-07-15 19:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 Minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

My co-worker brought to my attention something unusual in the sky while we were doing some work outside of the warehouse. I looked up to where he pointed. I saw what looked like three shiny round pellets suspended in the air somewhat perpendicular to each other giving the appearance that they were right on top of each other. There was a fourth object that was shaped like a cone pointed downward. This cone object was just below the three shiny round objects. This gave the overall visual image like that of holding a tripple snow cone up in the air. Near the bottom pointed end of the cone object there was a constant flash of light like that of a kodak camera when taking a snap shot. This would flash every 3 seconds. There was also the impression that the cone was spinning because of shadows and reflections that could be seen. The four objects came descending rapidly from high altitude. They were at first shiny specs in the sky and then within less than a minute I could see the details of the object getting more and more clearer as they descended. They were about the size of buck shot at half arms length. An airliner passed below the objects. After the plane passed below the objects, they began to quickly ascend and soon dissappeared in the morning sky. There was no sound other than the airliner that took off from the nearby airport.



Posted 2003-07-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25174
Occurred: 2002-09-19 19:35 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 21:00 Pacific
Duration: 2mins
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams

UNKNOWN SPACE DEBRIS TRAVELING NORTH WITH A VERY LARGE CONE SHAPE VAPOR TRAIL

ON 9/19/02, AT APPROX 1935 HRS, THE SUN WAS DOWN BEYOND THE HORIZON AND THE SKY WAS A LIGHT BLUE TURNING TO NIGHT. I HAPPENED TO LOOK UP AND SAW A VERY BRIGHT WHITE VAPOR TRAIL WITH A BRIGHT WHITE HOT SPHERE LEADING THE WAY AND TRAVELING DUE NORTH. I COULD TELL THAT THE SPHERE WAS SLOWING DOWN AND A HUGE WHITE CONE SHAPE VAPOR BEGAN TO EMINATE FRON THE SPHERE. THE SPHERE SLOWED TO A STOP AND DISAPPEARED. THERE WAS NO SOUND ASSOCIATED WITH THIS INCIDENT. THE WHITE VAPOR TRAIL REMAINED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES. THIS SIGHTING WAS EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL ESPECIALLY SEEING THE CONE VAPOR TRAIL. MY IMPRESSION IS THAT THIS WAS SPACE DEBRIS BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS TYPE OF DISPLAY FROM A METORITE.



((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 25176
Occurred: 2002-09-19 19:30 Local
Reported: 2002-09-19 21:09 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams

An extremely bright round light in the sky about 10 degrees from the zenith, was observed shortly after dusk. The diameter and height of the light could not be determined. The intensity of the light seemed as a distant automobile light but very white. There was a halo and the beam was visible for a short distance from the light as a searchlight beam can be seen when it not aimed directly at the observer. No sound was associated with the beam. The beam was undulating rapidly, too fast for searching the ground. When the beam was extinguished small lights sinilar to a firework burst appeared, with no noise, in a plane centered on the light and perpendicular to it for about one second. It was not an airplane or helicopter.



((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 18161
Occurred: 2001-06-24 22:30 Local
Reported: 2001-06-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 high flying objects traveling at great speeds across the night sky.

As U was standing in my back yard looking up at the night sky, I noticed a satellite coming across the night sky, and just beyond its direction of travel I saw 2 redish/orong colored lights traveling in the same direction as if they were connected bbut with a uncertian distance between them. They seem to be as high as the satellite but moving at a greater speed. So fast that even a low flying plane could not possible fly as fast given thier apparent distance from me. They were flying perpendicular to the first 2 stars of the Big Dipper. As a few seconds went by they seem to have turned 45 degrees to the left and then split another 45 degrees going in the opposite direction, and then they were out of sight.The night is clear with no clouds in the sky and the moon was in a totally different part of the night sky. Don't know what it was, but I know they were not planes or satellites and they had no apperant sounds comimg from them,not even trailing them as planes do.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13310
Occurred: 2000-07-07 20:30 Local
Reported: 2000-07-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes?
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light


turqoise light in the sly

Saw turqoise color, fairly bright light high up in the sky (not far from the moon). The sky was mostly clear at the time. The light was fog-like and first was a longer stripe, then 5 minutes after I went to see it again and it had changed to a more round shape with undefined edges. Very unusual color and it was quite large. I didn't see any movement. After 30 minutes I went to check it again and by that time clouds had covered the area and I couldn't see the light anymore. This incident reminds quite a lot of the one I saw reported on 03/13 at 8pm in the same area.

Posted 2000-07-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12690
Occurred: 2000-04-20 21:05 Local
Reported: 2000-04-22 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 to 25 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

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

Saw orange colored light moving across the sky

I saw an orange colored egg shaped light with a bump on top at 9:05pm Thursday night April 20, 2000, moving from the northeast to the soutwest in a straight line. The speed was faster than a jetliner and made no sound. I viewed the light for about 20 to 25 seconds until it disappeared in the southwest.The light was a fuzzy orange.

Posted 2000-04-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42485
Occurred: 1999-11-05 18:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-02-26 13:44 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 9

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

On Friday Nov. 5, 1999 just before sunset, a gigantic metalic colored dominoe shaped object flew over the San Francisco Bay Area.

On Friday afternoon (~6:15 P.M.) Nov. 05, 1999 I was playing with my dog in the backyard of my home in Santa Clara, CA. which is directly behind Paramounts Great America Theme Park. There were light partial clouds that day and no fog, so any aircraft was clearly visible. Seeing aircraft on a continuous basis to and from San Jose International Airport and Moffett Field was common at that locale.

This evening I noticed the incoming flight patterns of the P3 Orion naval aircraft from Moffett Field. The planes appeared to approach from the north, then turned west toward the air field (from my perspective). They would first appear to be small twinkling lights, then as they got closer, of course, they would finally take the shape of an airplane.

Then, suddenly, I noticed one of them appeared to be tumbling from the sky?! I ran to the fence and thought to myself, Jesus that plane is going to crash! I'm actually going to witness a plane crash! But as it got closer it looked like it was diamond shaped?

Then it shape shifted into what appeared to be a slow moving metalic colored dominoe moving southbound in the north sky! What...in...the...hell...?! I lost sight of it as it passed behind my neighbors roof.

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief and shook my head violently! I thought to myself, okay I am not crazy, when this thing reappears from the other side of the roof it's going to be a Boing passenger liner on it's way to San Jose Airport. Much to my surprise, when it reappeared it was, in fact, a gigantic wingless craft cruising as slow as you please right over the Bay Area!! AAAAAh, it's happening, we're being invaded by aliens!!!!!

I ran frantically screaming into my front yard trying to direct anyone's attention to this craft. My mother, niece, grand-nephew, friend (a former nuclear powered submarine pilot), and four of my neighbor's (one of which was a retired senior engineer from Lockeed Martin) came outside to see what I was yelling about.

Then, in disbelief, we all watched this UFO perform some of the most amazing arial maneuvers I've ever seen with my own eyes! First, as it was moving in a southernly direction, it made an immediate 90 degree turn west. No banking, no arch, I mean on a dime! Then, it suddenly ascended, glowing orange as it rose! I thought aloud, "look a plasma, it's striking a plasma!" My neighbor, Mr. C replied, "no, it's catching the tangent rays of the sun." I asked, "How big is this thing, a couple, or a few football stadiums maybe?" Wild eyed, Mr. C replied, "No, much much bigger...like maybe half the size of the Bay Area?!...I don't know?!"

Then it made a series of zig-zag and square moves which took our breath away, but the most spectacular move was it's northernly directional shot accross the sky! It flew so fast that visually it seemed to elongate, or stretch like a rubber band accross the sky to an abrupt stop!

Then, from it's north easternly point in the sky it ascended at a very fast rate until it appeared to be a star in the early evening sky. It stayed at that point in the heavens for several hours until it just disappeared (~03:00 a.m.).

Unfortunately, we were all so shocked we didn't have the presence of mind to get a camera or camcorder. No calls to the authorities were made either.

For weeks I looked through the San Jose Mecury News paper and watched the televised news reports for anything related to the event that I and my family members and neighbors witnessed. Nothing.

I've watched programs on UFO's and read countless testamonial from eye witness accounts of similar such events, but nothing related to that particular event on that particular day. It amazes me that something like that over such a heavily concentrated population center never made it to the media.

I still don't know what we saw on that day, but I couldn't keep this to myself any longer.

That is why I purposely looked for this web-site to report this event. I'm sorry it took me so long.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9350
Occurred: 1999-09-04 00:40 Local
Reported: 1999-09-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 8-10 seconds
No of observers: 6

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright light appearing in the sky which then accelerated at a rapid rate till it was no longer visible.

At approximately 12:40am, we witnessed a bright bluish-white light which appeared to be flying very slowly, almost hovering in the sky. After a few seconds it then accelerated at an extremly high rate of speed, then disappeared. The object made no sound whatsoever as it traversed across the sky. It was witnessed by 4 police officers, my girlfriend, and myself. The location of the sighting was Santa Clara, CA at 37.346992 N, 121.983848 W.

Posted 1999-09-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 5002
Occurred: 1998-12-04 22:25 Local
Reported: 1998-12-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Stanford, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

I am a senior in college, and was walking northwest in a campus parking lot. I looked up and noticed a very distinct formation of lights about the size, shape, and brilliance of stars travelling down the sky, staying in exactly the same formation. They were not moving as slowly as an airplane nor as quickly as a shooting star -- somewhere in between, but again, they looked as far away as the stars did so they must have been going relatively very quickly. I saw them for about 15 seconds, when they started getting dimmer (as if travelling away from the earth) and then disappeared from view. The formation looked something like this: .. ... . ... .. .. . ... I was walking with my boyfriend at the time, and although I tried to point them out to him, he was not wearing his glasses. He is near- sighted, and by the time he got his glasses out and put them on, the formation of lights was too dim to see.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13736
Occurred: 1997-06-08 15:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2000-08-10 00:00 Pacific
Duration: appx 2 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Changed Colo

It sped off at a teriffic speed, changing size and color.

When I was returning from a local disposal site, upon reaching the top of an overpass, an object caught my eye off to the left. It was hovered at a very low altitude appx. 500 ft. It was angled on it's side about 30 degrees, it's shape looked like a HIGH HAT. It sat there for about 2 min. Upon viewing it, it was black in color with a silver perimeter, it had a saucer plate bottom, inside of the plate was black and the perimeter was again silver. On the top hat portion off to the left side midway up, there seems to be a shape of a door, or a square window. The distance was 1 mile or less, it was about forty ft. across, and about 50 ft. in height. It sat in a southwesterly dircetion, when it sped off, it left in the same direction. As it left at a terrfic speed, it changed color to white, and size to a ball. The sky was all blue with few clouds, it left the atmosphere into the ionesphere and beyond within a mere few seconds. This took place in Santa Clara, Ca. I have seen other sightings more astounding than this one, dating back to 1967. The 1967 sighting was more detailed and astounding.

Posted 2000-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 836
Occurred: 1995-09-19 05:57 Local
Reported: 1995-09-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1 min.


Location: Stanford, CA, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 628
Occurred: 1995-07-22 10:30 Local
Reported: 1995-07-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 min.


Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape:


Mr. Peter Davenport
National UFO Reporting Center
PO Box 45623, University Station
Seattle, WA 98145

Dear Peter,

Along with my report, I have enclosed a hand-written report from Ben Kwong who witnessed the same UFO's with me on Saturday, July 22, 1995. Mr. Kwong is an engineer and lives in San Jose. I did not get a written report from his 12-year-old son, Michael, but will send it to you if he writes one. I believe that the reports from Mr. Kwong and myself should be thorough enough. The only difficulty in writing our reports would be regarding the order in which we saw everything happen. This is due to the fact that we saw up to five UFO's (four to five in the air at once). We were not always looking at the same UFO at the same time. Since there were several UFO's in the sky at once during our sighting, we didn't always focus on the same UFO's. Anyway, the following is my accounting of what we saw. Also, please note that I may have incorrectly given you the time of the sighting as being between 10:30 AM and 11:00 to 11:15. The time was between 9:30 AM to 10:00 or later. It was definitely for at least a half hour, maybe an hour (I began teaching my tennis lesson at 9:00 and noticed the first UFO at about 9:30. When I arrived at home, 2 min. away, it was about 11:00 but I don't recall watching the UFO's for more than 45 min. to an hour at the very most -very minimum was a half hour).

To whom it may concern:

On Saturday, July 22, 1995 at 9:30 AM I, along with Michael Kwong (age 12), and his father (Ben Kwong), had a UFO's sighting which lasted for at least a half hour (to 10:15 AM or later) over the sky of Santa Clara, CA, from the Marina Playa Apt. complex tennis courts located at 3500 Granada Ave. and Lawrence Expressway (El Camino is a close cross street of Lawrence Expressway). The sighting first began at 9:30 AM when I was teaching Michael Kwong a tennis lesson. Michael was practicing his serve and was tossing the ball in the air. I looked at the ball toss as it went up and noticed that the moon was out. I also noticed an object by the moon which I took to be a star and appeared stationary like a star. I looked at the object again and thought it might be moving slowly. The object appeared to be moving slowly at a very high altitude, perhaps just within the atmosphere or at least at a very high altitude. I spoke to Michael and began to say things out loud like, "What is that? What the heck is that? It's not an airplane." Michael looked up at it as well. I stopped the lesson out of curiosity to watch this object. I walked over to the fence and yelled to Ben Kwong, who was sitting in his car reading the newspaper. I asked him to come out of his car to get a look a the object so we could figure out what it was. He stood down below the tennis courts, looking up at the object as I and Michael were too. Then Mr. Kwong came up to the court and all three of us continued to watch the object. The object looked completely round and whitish in appearance (perhaps due to the altitude or even entering the atmosphere?). The object slowly moved away from the moon and then curved a slowly headed back toward its original position, and then it appeared to hover and then start to move slowly again. We watched this object for a few minutes and then we saw another object which looked had the same appearance as the first object. I don't remember if Mr. Kwong or I spotted the next object first (Mr. Kwong's son is near sighted, so he had a harder time seeing). I believe we watched until finally we saw at least four of the whitish objects in the sky. At one point it appeared like they were hovering and moving slowly in four corners of the sky. When they were closer to us, they appeared metallic, sort of a metallic, silver to silver-blue in color. When they were higher up they initially appeared to be more whitish in color. Anyway, we continued watching several of these objects as they moved slowly, stop, and move in bizarre paths, unlike airplanes. They were very high but left no exhaust trail. They moved and changed direction, unlike weather balloons or satellites. At some point, after watching the (I'll call them silver, or metallic-silver/blue) objects, Ben and I noticed a red UFO, completely round like the others, but a metallic-red in color. We then both observed a silver UFO and the red UFO in a staggered formation, with the silver UFO leading in front to the left of the red UFO (doing what appeared to be the same speed). We noticed another red object at a lower altitude slowly moving up into the sky (not metallic, but more of an all orange to orange-red in color). I didn't, nor did Ben, take much notice of this object as it slowly went up into the sky. It could have been a balloon and didn't have the metallic look of the other objects which were very high in the sky. At some point, the silver UFO's would just disappear from sight. I don't know where they went, maybe out into the upper atmosphere, Then sometimes one would come back into view. The red UFO really caught my attention next. Ben had lost sight of it (you really had to "track" with your eyes without looking away from the UFO's or it would take a few seconds to find some of them again). Anyway, I told Ben that I could see the red UFO again. I saw it moving very slowly up in the sky and then it suddenly shot through the sky at an amazing speed. I said, " There it goes! There it goes! Look at it go!" Ben kept saying that he couldn't find it. We watched some of the other UFO's until it seemed that there were no more to see (they had all gone, but we didn't see them leave). We had about given up on seeing any more UFO's up there when I caught sight of the first or perhaps another red UFO. I told Ben to look up as I pointed to its location. Ben said he could see it. Suddenly the red UFO shot across the sky at an amazing speed, much much faster than any jet or rocket could fly (we were watching regular passenger jets crawl across the sky every once in awhile as we watched the UFO's. The passenger jets, and some jets which may have been military from Moffet Field, were at a much lower altitude than the UFO's, a testimony to the speed of the UFO's). I kept pointing at the red UFO as it sped across the sky. We were both in awe, and were both speaking out loud in our amazement of the speed of the object ("There is no way that can be a jet. Nothing is that fast. Look at it go." -etc., etc.). As I was moving my finger across the sky, tracking the object (in what would take a jet several minutes to travel, I followed the object across the sky in less than ten seconds. It was still at a very high altitude as well), Ben said he could see a silver UFO right next to the red one. I said I only could see the red one, but just before the red UFO completely went out of sight, I could see another UFO, a silver one, very close to the red UFO or joined to it. We were then completely convinced that we saw UFO's, things which are not man-made. We didn't see any more UFO's for a few minutes, so I resumed my tennis lesson, although I had a very hard time teaching. We stopped a few minutes later. I looked up again and saw one lone silver UFO (up so high that it appeared white). It was hovering and then started to move slowly again. I told Ben and Michael that there was another one up there. At this point, we already saw the most exciting part of our sighting (the red UFO & silver UFO shooting off). Our necks were tired from the strain of looking up, almost straight up at times for over a half hour (possibly an hour or more, as Ben stated, although I can't be sure). We really didn't take much notice of this UFO and we didn't see it disappear from sight, but it did a couple of minutes later. We parted between 10:30 and 11:00 AM. I went back to my apartment and called some TV stations to see if anyone had reported anything (I really thought SOMEONE would have witnessed what we saw and would report it. The TV station personnel said nobody else called in, plus they seemed rather skeptical of my story. That annoyed me a bit. I then called the Air Force in Santa Clara County. They switched me from command post to command post. I gave my story up to three times perhaps. They asked me at what time I saw the UFO's, took my story, and then said they would transfer me to another command post and to just tell them the same thing (that I told the first people I contacted). Finally, the Air Force gave me the phone # of the National UFO Reporting Agency (for whom I am writing this report). I, after giving my story to Peter Davenport, was made aware of the fact that another person in California reported seeing up to five UFO's on the same day I had my sighting. This was my first time every seeing anything like this in my life (I'm 29-years-old, teach tennis and am also a computer specialist teaching elementary school. Ben, like I said, is an engineer. So I believe we are both credible people).

End of Report

I'm waiting to get my grandmother's written report of her two sightings and my mother's report of a sighting (these all happened many years ago). I was afraid to mention their sightings because I thought it might make my sighting less credible. I indeed immediately felt I had something to share with them and also wanted them to retell of their sightings as well. My grandmother's sightings are of particular interest to me since she saw a UFO in the Almaden area of San Jose, CA some 58 years ago. I teach in this area and my ancestors first settled there in the 1860's. Someone emailed me who lives in Almaden to tell me she and her daughter & 14-year-old son had sightings in Almaden. She said that her son saw one hovering over the school that I teach at. This was before she even knew that I teach at this school! Anyway, I don't know how many people you can believe on the Internet re. sightings, but I know what I saw, and that's good enough for me. The only other strange thing I observed in my life was described to me by someone on the Internet as being "ball lightening" or something like it. I was twelve-years-old at the time. I don't know if that is UFO related or not. Is it just a normal phenomenon. It happened indoors. It went under a cot. The cot shot straight up in the air, about five feet, and there was nothing underneath the cot! The object was indefinable in shape, just grayish/white, and swirling. It seemed to react to me as I entered the room and skimmed across the floor. Any ideas?

Sincerely,
William D. Bailey
[email protected]

Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166104
Occurred: 1985-05-14 20:40 Local
Reported: 2022-01-05 07:12 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA
Location details: Wilson adult education center

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Large round glowing circle size of a new moon

I and a school peer were outside smoking on a break from class. I looked up prompted by I don’t know what as this object made no sound yet I felt like it did at a frequency just out of hearing range. I thought I was seeing things as at first I thought I was watching the moon slowly move across the sky just above us. I realized it was not the moon. It seemed to shimmer and disappeared. I looked at my school peer and asked did you see that? He had but looked really uncomfortable. I told my parents but they did not believe me and I don’t think it was reported. Never forget what I saw. I don’t know what I saw but will always have it burned into my memory.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25667
Occurred: 1971-06-15 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-10-17 18:54 Pacific
Duration: 2 hrs.
No of observers: 3

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Pink disc plays "hide and seek" with private and miltary planes for 2 hrs.!

This sighting occurred in 1971-1972 from what I can figure out. I wish I would have written down the date, but when you're a child - you don't think to do something like that.

My brother and I were walking to the local convenience store to get some candy about 8:00 PM at night when we saw this odd, shimmering light in the sky across the Santa Clara Valley. It was stationary, the color of magnesium and kind of looked like a mild Fourth of July sparkler sitting there motionless in the sky. It was over the valley low enough that we could see the outline of the top of the mountain range up above and beyond it.

Well, we apparently weren't the only people witnessing this extraordinary aerial phenomena. A small private plane was coming across the sky toward the light to get a better look at it. As soon as the plane was a short distance away form it, the light turned itself off, dimmed itself into darkness. The private plane made a few tentative circles around where the object was and flew off. When it was a short distance away, the object came back on again, shining away in the exact same place.

If this wasn't enough, apparently this shimmering star like object had attracted the attention of the local Navy P3 Orion subchasing patrol. One of these large military planes came over to take a look - and the same thing happened again! The light went out, the big plane made a couple of large, lazy circles in the area where it had apparently observed the object, and then when it left - on came the light again, in the same place! The next thing that happened about ten minutes or so later, we weren't quite prepared for. We heard it before we saw it - the military had scrambled a jet from one of the nearby military bases. We heard it before we saw it as it came screaming across the sky. So did the object, and apparently was startled by it. The thing all of a sudden glowed much brighter than it had been ("Oh, no!" ;) and then quickly put it's shimmering light out again.

The jet stayed there for about 20 min. or so, going from wide to tighter and tighter circles, and even doing "figure 8's". But, apparently, it gave up the pursuit of the object and we saw the jet fly off - and guess what happened?? The shimmering light came back on again - but this time, it had moved a short distance in the sky to another spot not far from the original one! And , it continued to shine.

During this incredible experience, I had run the two blocks back home and had gotten binoculars. Through them , I had gotten a much better look at this mysterious object. It looked like a glowing pink disc or football shaped object, completely molten, with sparks coming off of it. It kind of reminded me of how an ember glows in the dark. I estimated it was about the size of a passenger car.

The whole incident lasted about two hours, because we were kids and had to go home to bed, and probably got a little bored because the object was just sitting there shimmering and not moving. We didn't watch it leave, it was still there when we gave up and went home.

I saw it in the exact same place again several nights later, shining away again, but didn't watch it again that night for very long. No planes seemed to be trying to molest it this time. And then, I never saw it again.

My brother and a neighbor lady witnessed this with me. There also had to be witnesses in the private plane, the P3 Orion subchaser plane from Moffett Field NAS, and the pilot of the jet fighter. I haven't seen anyone else report this sighting, so I thought I would.

P.S. Peter - please use this version - I corrected a few typos. Thanks!

Posted 2002-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34475
Occurred: 1961-01-01 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-01-15 17:21 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours


Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Circle


Stationary circular object 12 oclock high.

I was in kundergarten at the time, it was lunch when the bell rang for us to return to our class room. Right before i was to enter the room something made me to stop and look straight up, in the blue of the sky ,i could make out a round object blended into the blue of the sky..the object had some dots the were in a circle in the center. I was like in trance looking at this object ..when the teacher told me to come in. i didn't think anything of it till i got home...and looked staight up before i entered the house and the object was still there 3 hours later....It was not the moon or a blimp.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18730
Occurred: 1954-04-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-07-30 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Stanford Campus, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Civil Defense plane spotter reports UFO sighting at Stanford University

This is a sighting that took place 47 years ago while a student at Stanford University. I had considerable experience as a Civil Defense plane spotter during WW2. As far as I know I was the youngest qualified observer registered. One starlit evening I drove to the University's golf coarse to get a view of the clear and beautiful star lit sky. I had a date and shortly upon arriving I witnessed this rainbow colored brightly shinning,apparent,star. I pointed to its location. We both were amazed when it took off at incredible speed and stopped instantly,then after briefly hovering headed in another directin eith right angle turns. This strange movement went back and forth but eventually headed in a North Eastern direction,where it suddenly disappeared, from its originall South Eastern point.We could not explain it. We concluded it was some government secret. Lockheed Research facility was locate 5 miles away. We thought it eminated from there. I did not believe in extra terrestrial activities at that time.I am not even certain that word was in use then.I did not give much thought to it until some years later, when I realized I witnessed an actual"UFO". The multicolored flashing circular strobe-like lights and movement eliminated any other possibility.I have not previously reported this experience but it is time. Now or never. I'm getting up there agewise.



((FOLLOW-UP CORRESPONDENCE))

Dear Peter,
Thank you for your prompt reply to my sighting. I was 22 yeas old at that time. Your first sighting followed a few months later. I enjoyed hearing that you were so young when it occurred for you. At the time of my experience I wrongly concluded that it would be announced in the next decade. No such luck and the Government is still keeping the lid on it. Perhaps the problem is they don't understand it themselves.
The object made an erratic arc in the sky from San Jose toward the San Francisco Bay Area. It seemed to scan back and forth over what is now Silicon Valley. I have thought about it a lot over the years.Recently, I imagined the UFO may have had a capacity for seeing the future and gathering our
future technology with some time travel to the future. This is really off the wall but once you witness an event like this it defies all our known physical laws and anything may be possible.

It is always good to meet a Stanford man and especially one who has spearheaded this adventurous project. It takes a lot of courage to buck the skeptics and you have succeeded admirably.

I hope we will meet. Should you visit the Bay Area please let me know.

Regards, ((name deleted))

P.S. My visual location was standing very close to where they located the
Stanford SETI site. That is rather amusing I think.

((END FOLLOW-UP

NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-07-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 151539
Occurred: 1952-06-01 13:00 Local
Reported: 2019-12-13 15:03 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Santa Clara Ca. I was 13 years old. We were listening to cottonseed Clark counter radio station. When the announcer said folks there’s a flying saucer out side go out and look up right now...the FCC has threatened to turn me off if I don’t shut up and I’m gonna keep broadcasting as long as I can, go out and look up. I’ve lived in a trailer court on Blacow Rd. Momma and myself went out to look up and several people from the park was out looking up also...this saucer was right above my head my neck was back as far as it could go looking up over my head. It was a large silver disc, no sound, It hovered a few seconds then started rising slowly straight up then continued on an angle. Moffit Field Navel Air Base deployed Fighter Jets to follow but as they got closer to the craft the Jets broke the sound barrier and the craft shot out of sight. Everyone that listened to the radio station went out and saw the craft.. My dad was stationed at Moffit Field at the time! and when he got home momma asked him about the UFO and he said we didn’t know what we were talking about and to shut up and not ever talk about it again.. I know what was above my head.

Posted 2019-12-19