Light over Cotati, CA
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The report, as filed
climbing light observed
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2004-04-28 → 2004-05-15
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June 11, 2021 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cotati, CA
On Friday June 11, 2021 around 16:00 my wife brought to my attention an object in the North Eastern sky over Sonoma County, California. It was white. It was very tiny. It was way to small to describe any details. It did not appear to be moving. The sky was very clear and there were no clouds, at least in the direction we were looking. By around 16:45 the sky slowly began to cloud up and we could no longer see the object. There is not a lot to tell except it was very small, white in color, appeared stationary, appeared approximately 45 degrees relative to North. Trying to report this object was extremely difficult as the UFO center is the only place that responded and that was 3 to 4 hours after we called them.
December 19, 2018 · 5:41 PM · LIGHT
Cotati, CA
At 5:41pm my mom called me and told me to look out my back window, which faces West. She was at the Costco in Rohnert Park and said there was a strange jet-stream in the sky that was glowing brightly. The sun had already set and when I looked out the window, I was shocked by how bright this was. It looked like a lasso in the sky. The oval was on the top right and it trailed down to the left. It slowly faded over 5-10 minutes. After looking online I found this was identical to the lights seen over Reno, NV, at the same time. However, I am in Cotati (very close to the coast - maybe 30 minutes) and I was also looking West towards the coastline. Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:55 PM · LIGHT
Cotati, CA
A very bright light in the sky shining down like a spotlight. A green trail ( smokelike or like a jet stream) was attached to the light and not the object... The light was shining for about 3 minutes. It was so bright that I felt that if it shined on me, it would be too bright to handle. It never shined down on me. I saw that the light was moving in my direction and this black blanket covered it completely. The green streak stayed there as this ufo floated slowly way up and out in the distance. After it was no longer visible there was white smoke in its place where the "black blanket" had covered the ufo and light completely. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Cotati, CA
Was outside feeding my horses at dusk when i saw this green ball of light sending down this green light to the ground, which i thought at first was a helicopter with a search light. The ball of light went higher and higher into the sky until it disappeared, and no helicopter noises either. The green light stayed even though the ball of light disappeared and it turned into what looked like a neon green smoke or mist, it expanded like one of those into the sky and i sat and watched it for about 10 minutes with confusion. It then got dark so i couldn't see it anymore US Navy missile launch. PD
June 7, 2004 · 10:39 PM · FORMATION
Cotati, CA
satalite due-3 viewed ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of NOSS satellite triplet. PD))
February 11, 1999 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cotati, CA
I was driving north on HWY 101 over the hill from Peteluma to Cotati when I saw a green/blue orb pass in front of my car in the upper p