NUFORC Sighting 11759

Occurred: 2000-01-18 18:30 Local
Reported: 2000-01-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30sec & 5min
No of observers: 4

Location: Pleasanton (35miles due East of SFO), CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Saw a Very Bright Light Moving slowly/silently for 30secs. it had a very large fan-like projection of light behind it. when it disappeared a large blue glow remained for 5 min

I was cooking dinner for my Son and I when his friends, who were playing outside started yelling hey its a Ufo!!!! So we ran to see. we saw a bright white light about the size of a quarter or a little bigger..at arms length.. it was projecting a big V shape of light behind it like this >o it floated silently toward the neighborhood for about 30 sec before it disappeared behind a cloud.. we all expected to see it again as the cloud was quite small, but it was gone.. no Light no sound.. nothing just gone. Then we noticed a Blue glow where the big (>) of light had been it was a florecnty dark blue color and it gradually faded over a 5 min period. A neihgboor joined us just after the light disappeared, he only saw the blue glow I heard 2nd hand news stories today about a missle and a sattalite... it was those stores more than anything else that compelled me to file this report.. because what we saw was not That

NUFORC Note:

Missile launch out of Vandenberg AFB at this time.

Posted 2000-01-22