NUFORC Sighting 168162

Occurred: 1996-06-15 23:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-05-24 11:20 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Stockton, CA, USA
Location details: Intersection of Stanfield drive & Chauncey Circle

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

UFO witnessed hovering above us in close proximity at night

My father and I were driving home through our residential neighborhood in North Stockton one night in 1996. My curfew was 11pm, and it was a 12 minute drive home. We came to a stop sign on Stanfield drive, and there was an unusually bright light outside that confused us. We looked out of the windshield at the direction of the light which appeared to be coming from above the streetlight. After a minute of sitting in the car wondering what was going on, we wanted to get out to take a closer look. My dad put the car in park at the stop sign and we walked closer to the streetlight, almost underneath it, and looked up. The light was definitely coming from ABOVE the streetlight. Not high up in the sky, not from the back of the streetlight, but from right above the streetlight (like 10-20 feet maybe?). There was no noise or wind. The one light was bright and white, unlike the street lamp. There was a darkness behind and around the light, that was darker than the sky. We realized someTHING was there and that whatever we were seeing could probably see us too, so we got scared and ran to the car and sped off. After arriving at home a few minutes later, I checked the clock to make sure we hadn’t “lost time” (aka gotten abducted), and made sure it was still the same day.

My father and I didn’t talk about it again. A few months afterwards, we grew apart and did not talk for 7 years. After reuniting, I asked him if what I remembered of our UFO encounter was true, and he confirmed the details of the story. Dad doesn’t believe in aliens but he also can’t explain what we saw. If it was not alien spacecraft, our next guess would have to be government aircraft—whose technology to safely hover soundlessly, windless, and nearly invisibly so close to homes is a highly guarded secret (but why??).

Posted 2022-06-22

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