NUFORC Sighting 179345

Occurred: 2023-11-10 18:44 Local
Reported: 2023-11-10 20:26 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 Minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Dixon, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Color: Black (vantablack)
Estimated Size: 200 yards in length; Width approx 50 yards
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Directly over me as I was standing facing north
Angle of Elevation: 85
Closest Distance: 500-1000 feet
Estimated Speed: <75 mph
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Made a sound

5 of us (4 Adults, one (1) 7 year old. Flew over at about 300-750 ft altitude

Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago.

4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following.

My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM on 11/10/2023. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over.

At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve.

The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this.

1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less.
2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft.
3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing.
4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an air craft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the air craft. The air craft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone.
5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right.
6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path.
7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a combination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it.

We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing".

Attached are the pics we each made of the object.

Posted 2023-12-09