Disk over Santa Cruz, CA
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2007-01-30 → 2007-02-16
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August 31, 2023 · 7:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
I think there is a top secret thing going on at lockheed property in the mountains. I was driving up eagle rock on a utv and i see this triangular object with rounded edges. It was in one spot, then jogged to another and hovered there about a minute at a time. It rapidly flew over and descended behind a mountain range owned by lockheed martin. I panicked and ran behind a burned out rock cliff/cave, when i realized where I was it was darker outside although it was beginning of sunset when i observed it. I knew I was there the whole time, but it seemed like sunset happened in five minutes while I was waiting for it to leave. could not turn on utv until it left. It was jogging across the canyon almost like it was surveying spots.
August 22, 2023 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
in the past i had a similar encounter near the old satellite box trail off hicks road. i was early 20s and i thought i saw something similar but i was approached by unrecognizable "beings". i could not see them, they were blurry or see through. i ran and jumped into my car and took off. i never really thought about that and i repressed the whole incident thinking i lost time. i did lose time. i didnt think anyone would believe me. i had the same feeling today when i saw this triangle type craft. maybe not so much a triangle but one with rounded edges.i didn’t see any "beings" except when I was 21 or 22 when that happened. The thing was I knew I was being watched. And this was like 10-15 seconds long today. When it left all the natural sounds returned. I could even hear the bats above me flying around. I have experienced this "dead sound" before but never looked around and saw anything. This brief absence of sound always is accompanied by cold sweat and extreme fatigue.i only connect this weird feeling when it happens and then I never talk about it at all and I forget. I thought I had to write this down at least once.
May 24, 2022 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Cruz, CA
Where I live I look out to the ocean and a dark night sky. Last night I saw these lights in the sky that at first I thought must be fireworks since that is common to see where I live at certain times of year, but I realized that what I was looking at was not fireworks. The objects were a glowing orangey color and they appeared to be stationary for a bit- at first I saw a collection of about 7 or 8- not sure exactly how many of them. They changed formation, but they did not move in a constant way. I grabbed my binoculars and looked at them but I couldn't see anything better. Then they completely disappeared while I was watching them. Five minutes after I saw these glowing lights in the sky that I can not explain what they are, I emailed a bunch of my neighbors who also live in homes where they might have looked at the night sky to see if they saw them but no one else saw them.
February 15, 2022 · 4:35 PM
Santa Cruz, CA
My security camera caught seven lights flash out of no where. There were No clouds and was a Blue sky. Immediately after flashes of Star shaped lights appeared, shadowy grey saucers appeared. They disappeared like a blink (no fade or movement) one by one. At the 3 minutes mark, 2 saucers remained stationary until the final one disappeared.
November 14, 2021 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
The below refers in part to materials I was not able to include because of your file limits. I can send you the materials discussed but not included via Google or We Transfer. Hello - My name is ((name dleted)). I am a music teacher and photographer who lives on the West Side of Santa Cruz, California. I am writing to ask for your help in interpreting one of the strangest things I have ever seen. It has been occurring since late October and continues each night there are no clouds or rain. On October 29th my neighbors and I first noticed two unidentifiable lights in our neighborhood - one smaller and distant, the other large and seemingly closer. I am a layman and not a scientist, but I feel like I can rule out a planet because: - they don't move position in the sky from night to night, or even week to week.They appear to return to the same coordinates each night; Both the smaller light and the large and bright one move in the sky visible to the naked eye. The smaller lights’ movement is very jagged. The brighter objects’ movement is more of a swaying back and forth. When I center the brighter object with my camera on a tripod, it moves out of frame in minutes, to the point where it is no longer visible from my vantage point. After several repositionings of the tripod, I have always had to move to a new location to continue shooting it. The brighter object has many smaller, fainter, fast moving lights near and around it that are very visible in the screen of my camera when it is in live view. The brighter object is usually accompanied by a triangular looking object that moves from frame to frame around and near it, photos 5347-5357. There is some wind, but the tripod is fixed, and to my layman’s eye it appears to show both objects moving in contrary motion to one another. I have also been videotaping the object since October 30th with my cell phone. I am enclosing a few videos and some freeze frames. In movie 1423, I was actually able to film the brighter object arriving in daylight. In movie “Video 2,” taken on 11/13/21, watch for a series of flashes, about 25 in all, starting in the upper right moving left, above and around the bright object. I did freeze frames of these flashes, which are enclosed. In movie 1579, taken November 23rd at 5:48, to the lower left of the bright object is a smaller flashing light, which when zoomed in on looks very curious, almost like a metallic, spinning hexagram. Beginning on November 10th, I started using my Nikon D750 on a tripod (although I had to move the tripod several times when the lights were moving quickly.) After observing and photographing the larger object with my 500mm lens, it seems like there is a pattern to what is occurring on a nightly basis. I want to say again that I am a layman, and so the terms and descriptions I use may not be scientific or accurate, but they describe what a layman has seen and photographed on several nights. The object arrives as a sphere (Movie 1423, taken November 6th at 6:27pm). It seems to grow in size and brightness and then goes through a series of intense flashes, lasting several seconds, where the intensity of the light increases, and the sphere appears to change shape. In the photos where the sphere is not a sphere any longer, for lack of any other way to describe it, multi-colored, worm-like objects that to my layman’s eye resemble DNA strands fill the entire sky. To my unscientific eye they appear to be clones of the object in some way, because these “DNA strands” are the exact shape of the nearby object as it flashes with different shapes in each of these photos. I have taken photos of this on a few different nights. Photos 4812-4912 are from 11/10/21 at 7:55pm. Photos 5615, 5677, and 5691 were taken on 11/17 at 8:30pm and show very similar images to 11/10. 5691 shows a stick like object that appears in many other photos. The last series of photos from 11/24/21 are for me the most puzzling and the most disturbing. I can only describe it in my very unscientific terms. During this stage the object moves a lot, and so I was struggling to keep up with it. They show the main, bright object being surrounded by multi-colored projectiles of some sort. I struggled to get the first shots of this, photos 5364-5378, which are partially obscured by the trees. (One interesting thing to note is the way the triangular object is visible even through the tree in photo 5364). In photo sequence 5379-5385, I got a clear shot of this head on. The projectiles surround the bright object and seemingly penetrate it like sperm to an ovum for lack of a better metaphor, exploding out the other side of the object with a great flash of energy. On November 17th I captured the same images a third time just before the object moved and went out of range, photos 5781-5794. I have many more images that I can send that span several weeks if you are interested. I am simply looking for a scientific, rational explanation for what I have filmed and photographed. Thank you so much for your help!
June 13, 2021 · 9:51 AM · CIGAR
Santa Cruz, CA
A loud vroom sound is heard. I see in the sky an aircraft with two large engines on either side but no wings on side or on back. I hear this sound only in the mornings. Not first aircraft spotted with this form and sound. Others seen are always traveling from south to north.