Triangle over Walnut Creek, CA
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The report, as filed
I and 7 freinds and family saw a dull, grey triangular shaped object hover over a hill, fly toward us and the speed away. There was a v
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September 3, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Walnut Creek, CA
I noticed a line of approximately 20 perfectly aligned star objects moving south to north over my house. They were at a very high altitude similar to a satellite but moving at a faster speed. I called my wife out of the house and she witnessed them also. The transit lasted about 1 minute before going away. I have seen satelites passing overhead before but nothing like this. We really did see this. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 13, 2022 · 8:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Walnut Creek, CA
Just bought grocery and it was a quiet night with the bright jupiter on the east, so I scan above to check if Saturn is somewhere near and I saw two stars, but then one star started moving, and I grab my phone and starts recording, as i am recording I see the lights moving slowly and silently and then took off in hyperspeed, no sound. upon reviewing my recorded video, it turns out that one light is part of the other 2 dimly lit light that formed a triangle.
July 5, 2021 · 8:38 PM · CHANGING
Walnut Creek, CA
It was solid white. Looked like a small plane with no wings at first. Flying at high altitude. Did not show up on flight tracker program. I started filming it. After it passed over the house from the backyard, we ran out front & it disappeared. Reviewing the footage & zooming in, it had an aura around it. It was clearly spinning in a rotation. It looked solid, then rotated into what looked like a burst of energy cloud, then an aura, then gone, but you could still see like a dissipated smokey look with an oval appearance. Then it went back to a solid appearance and repeated this 3 times that we could see in our footage. So in the rotations it had the ability to change. When enhancing a still shot, the front had a purplish spot. Another was in the middle and the backend was shaped like a house front. /\ shape roof with = shape under. It looked like one row of square lights lined the pitch roof looking area and two rows of square lights were on the bottom. It ! was very distinctive within the cigar/oval shape aura surrounding it. It made no noise at all. It was completely quiet. My 7 year old grandson spotted it first. When we were trying to enhance the footage to see it closer the laptop shut down on its own, twice. It was approximately 8:37-8:38 pm on July 5, 2021.
September 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Walnut Creek, CA
My wife and I go on a half mile walk around our neighborhood every night after dinner. As we finished our walk and were returning to our driveway around 8:15 PM, I am enjoying the view of the stars for the first time in weeks, as there has been terrible smoke cover for over a month due to the wildfires. As I'm looking south at the stars, I noticed one of these stars is moving across the sky. It looked JUST like a star, very bright, white light; however, it was 4-5x larger than a star typically looks. We observed carefully as it tracked overhead for 2-3 minutes; there were definitely no flashing lights or any changes in the brightness; however, it did appear to veer from side to side changing course several times (although this could have been imagined, I don't know for sure). About 75% accross the sky towards the opposite horizon, the light begins to shimmer into more of a reflection, and slowly vanishes in clear view, long before reaching the horizon. While! I am not saying that this was 100% a UFO, I am confident it was NOT an aircraft, missile, or satellite. It had no flashing lights, red or white; it made no noise, and was WAY too high to be a helicopter. It was dead quiet out, and if it was a plane, we can always hear their engines several seconds late. I will say that I do have a personal interest in UFOs, so it may be a confirmation bias; but at the same time, it was a very strange light that I've never seen anything like before, and did look very similar to other videos I've seen that made a strong case for being a true unidentified flying object. When checking off Characteristis below, this triggered a memory; about 2 minutes before seeing this light, i noticed an airplane with solid, yellow lights on the bottom in a triangular shape. I made note of this to my wife as it seemed odd to see a plane in flight with solid illumination lights on the bottom like this, in addition to their flashing red/white traffic lights. I am not sure if this is related or not but figured I should mention. It was travelling in the same direction as the ball of light, about 1-2 minutes before the ball of light was seen. This plane did not make a noise either (I guess we can hear planes if they are low enough/increasing elevataion? Must've been at cruising altitude but strange to see it close enough to make out these details and not hear it).
August 18, 2020 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Walnut Creek, CA
Early in the morning around 3:30 am August 16th, 2020 after seeing from our living room the lightning storm light up the sky outside behind us we go out onto our balcony to watch the storm. As we exit onto the balcony we notice the clouds are making very strange geometric patterns and as the lighting storm continues and becomes upon us there is one short burst of light reminiscent of the Northern Lights immediately followed by another burst of the same color light that exposed this massive dome structure in which we could very clearly discern the edges of the craft and the height in which it reached into the sky. My roommate and I were both immediately hit with this immense feeling of fear which made us not only brace but bring each other in closer. The structure was not visible for longer than a strike of lightning would last and after it hit our neighbor came out onto their balcony but did not seem to notice us. My girlfriend who also witnessed it didn’t feel the same sort of fear that my roommate and I experienced. She seemed to be completely unaffected by what she saw which makes us believe that my roommate and I were possibly abducted then placed back in what seems to be absolutely no time at all. Which would also in our perspective explain as to why our neighbor did not acknowledge or notice us even know we had been talking rather loudly. After the structure made it self apparent and then left we did not seem any further signs and in the next few minutes the geometric shapes in the clouds no longer seemed to be there. None of us who saw the structure or spacecraft are alien deniers but we did our best to convince ourselves that what we saw was just an unusual lightning phenomenon but after a few hours and some reflecting we all came together and decided that what we saw could not have been an unusual lightning event.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Walnut Creek, CA
1) it was not a plane or a heliocopter. It was not a star. Started out as two extremely bright lights shining and creating a circular nebula (like the moon lighting up part of the sky behind clouds. 2) pulled over the car with son to watch. now only one light left. extremely bight like it would be a very large meteor, but seemed stationary. Then moved low in the horizon. 3) I am a skeptical science guy, and have never seen anything ever like this. Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD