NUFORC Sighting 36346

Occurred: 2004-04-14 00:30 Local
Reported: 2004-04-14 17:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Merced, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Small agile triangular object with lights on the corners seen along I-5 south of Merced

I was driving north on I-5 in California (CA) and we were south of Merced. At around 12:30 on April 14, 2004 I noticed an odd pair of lights. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but my parents saw it too. I first noticed it when it appeared that the object was vertical with only 2 corners visible (imagine viewing a triangular block from the side).It appeared to be a very small triangular object with lights on the 3 corners.

The lights were round circular and cycled. To visualize one set of lights, imagine a cross section of a pipe with many lights making the circle. It was these lights that alternated kind of like christmas lights that look like the electricity is moving through them. For example, let's say each set of lights was only made of 3 lights. Light 1 is on, light 2 and 3 are off. Then L1 is off, L2 is on, L3 is off. Then L1 is off, L2 is off, L3 is on. Then L1 is on, L2 is off, L3 is off. I wish I could describe it better. Hopefully the text image below will come out correctly. You should see 3 O's portraying the 3 sets of circular light schemes with each O at a corner of an equilateral triangle.

O O O It hovered over the highway for maybe 30 seconds and quickly sped off to the right hand site shoulder behind the overpass. As I approached the overpass it came speeding back over the high way. It hovered very low. It actually passed right in front of my car twice and then hovered off to the left and shined a light (almost like a small white flashlight) right at me from the right hand side. This light came from one of the sides, not from one of the corners of the object. It followed me for a little bit and I was going just over 80mph. Then it crossed over the northbound side again and then went back to the right hand side where it vanished behind the overpass. I saw it for probably close to a minute or two total but it seems longer.

I believe the color was black but i couldn't quite see it because of the lights. I basically only saw the lights from it.

It may have been some one playing tricks on people because it was a very small object. Not exactly large enought to hold little green men. It probably close to 3 or 5 feet in length. It was definitely not wider than my Civic. However it had great agility and speed and it was silent.

I was definitely not the only person to see this. Aside from my parents in the same car, there were a bunch of trucks on the freeway at the time. I did a search on the internet at about 5:30 PM the same day to see if anyone had more info on this and I can't seem to find anything so I am entering in this info.

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD

Posted 2004-04-27