Circle over Santa Clara, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Stationary circular object 12 oclock high.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1960-12-29 → 1961-01-15
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October 28, 2022 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Santa Clara, CA
It happened around 9:30 pm. It's big and shinning, no tail is observed. The object does not have a regular shape, not round, lights shed in different directions and different lengths. It looks mostly blue, flying very fast, I am not able to take a photo. It goes from San Jose, flying toward Mountain View. I was at home with doors closed. No sound was heard.
December 10, 2017 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Santa Clara, CA
Looked up to see flashing blue/green light moving overhead, the light flashed about once a second. After observing for a few seconds it stopped in mid air and flew straight up, turning white with a red light just below it. After flying up a distance it stopped and flew back the way it came at a fast speed, changing from white back into blinking blue/green. It disappeared momentarily and reappeared a few seconds later a little farther, about 6 miles away. It hovered high up still blinking for about 20-30 seconds and then vanished. No noise was heard.
July 5, 2015 · 4:21 PM · FORMATION
Santa Clara, CA
Prior to these appearing, a small plane created a visual smoke effect of a peace sign and a lightning bolt by releasing smoke and making several maneuvers. After these smoke effects were broken up and dissipated but still remnant, after about 20 minutes. These two fairly large clouds were just hanging out right around where the peace sign was. The details were incredible, every detail of human skulls, with eyes. Every part of each cloud was a significant feature, nothing was obscure and cloudlike except they appeared as clouds in every way with the light, shadow and color. They appeared to be living, with facial expression and eye movements. The grateful dead were playing the stadium a few hours later. I did not discuss this with others there at the time or notice if others were observing them. I figured that this is what those deadheads out in California figured out and it all made sense. I didn't get a picture, but there were thousands of pedestrians there that all could have seen the same thing. Pictures may exist by others.
June 10, 2014 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Santa Clara, CA
I was watching TV at home when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a green light, what caught my attention is the fact that it went from flying towards the right to the opposite direction in seconds. It would go towards righr, then zip going up, then down, back to one direction and another. I was able to record it but because it was dark it's hard to see its direction change but you can still notice it. It went from solid red, to mix of red and greem, to solid green. In the recordings I caught it changing colors and directions. It ended up flying behind a palm tree then out of visible sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
January 1, 2014 · 12:20 AM · SPHERE
Santa Clara, CA
Three fiery orange-red orbs, all seen about 5 minutes apart, ascended into space on a near vertical path.
August 16, 2013 · 8:00 AM · CIRCLE
Santa Clara, CA
Got out of car to stretch my back after dropping my wife off at work, where she runs a project as a program coordinator at the local co