NUFORC Sighting 150292

Occurred: 2019-10-31 21:36 Local
Reported: 2019-11-01 04:08 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Carlsbad, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Un-lit, fast moving, low altitude triangular craft seen visually and with thermal imaging camera.

I am a security guard, at a fairly high security location. While looking toward the sky for an owl we heard screeching, I saw a dark triangle shaped craft pass over at high speed and at low altitude. Object was very hard to see, with 3 extremely dim large lights, or possibly it was just illuminated by ground lights in the three circular areas beneath it.

The object was only visible to the naked eye for seconds. I switched to a hand held thermal night vision camera and could see the object had heat and some thickness to it. The object appeared about as big as a small plane at several hundred feet. The object was moving faster than other aircraft and made no sound. It vanished from view with the camera in less than 10 seconds.

Object was heading South/Southeast, roughly toward an airport only a mile or two away. Since the tower is open until 10 PM, I would think they would have seen it on radar, unless it was stealthy or slightly too low.

I yelled to a colleague to step over and look up, but it had vanished visually before he could see it. Within 10 minutes of the sighting, a large military helicopter did a low flyover of the airport and flew through the area where the craft was last sighted. This happens occasionally, so it is unknown if related.



Posted 2019-12-01

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