NUFORC Sighting 04183

Occurred: 1998-07-01 20:45 Local
Reported: 1998-07-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min.
No of observers: 2

Location: Fresno, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

While on the roof of a 10 story building, looking north/east, I saw what appeared to be a trangle object flying very slow, then increase speed to something faster then I have ever seen or heard of.

I am a police officer in Fresno, Cal. I was on top of a 10 story building taking a report when I looked up to see our police chopper fly by.

When I started to look down at my report, I noticed what appeared to be a trangle flying object. It was about 10,000 feet up and about 2-3 miles away. It was dusk and I could seen orange/red color lights flicker, not flash, on each of the trangle tips. There appeared to be some sort of orange light or glow in the cender of the bottom. I could not see the top.

I could not see the color of the object. It appeared to move very slow, slower then a normal plane.

Then, all of a sudden, the object increased its speed almost instantly, shot straight up and out of sight in about 1-2 seconds.

I also had seen something like this several years ago in the same city, but was too busy to worry about it then.

Posted 1998-11-21