Unknown over San Jose, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Roaring noise over house that started and stopped suddenly four times, appearing to originate from different directions.
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 2008-02-03 → 2008-02-20
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November 25, 2023 · 9:18 PM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
So I was working out and I know what a shooting star looks like and what I saw was not it it was bright white and no fire works were sent out at this time and it literally was really fast not not to fast and it was going down and faded in mid air out of no where
November 20, 2023 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
I have lived by this airport for years. There is frequent air traffic, but this was different. I wasn't like anything I ever saw before.
October 11, 2023 · 3:27 PM · DISK
San Jose, CA
Video 1 10/11/23 03:27pm: The video here is a sighting of 1 ship, the other left 2 minutes before (have video too). If you watch this video, at the 10/11 second frame, you will see it cloaking into a bubble. Because it is a sunny day and cold, the destoration shows up in the camera. Throughout the video, you will capture a clear ball, moving erratically. At 21/22 seconds the craft reforms and then recloaks and moves around the video. its best to do a frame per frame view. I make the mention of a plane at the end, but that sound is behind me. Its not a plane. Video captures everything. Video 2 10/11/23 03:25pm: This is the ship that left before video 1 taken. It was 2 minutes earlier, so this one shows a craft at high speed shooting off. Video 3 12/1/23 03/33/pm: The best video, shows detail of one craft, cloaking, moving back and forth erratically, and doing things not capable by us. *** Everything filmed is in the 3pm timeline. Not sure it means anything. Alos best to do a frame by frame analysis is you have the time. It moves so fast, you will miss it. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
July 19, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
I am speaking for the witness, who is my 9 year old son. He was in the back yard playing with the dog when he observed a black sphere. There was sufficient features that allowed him to identify what appeared to be rotational movement. He was adamant it was not a balloon. It rose straight up and disappeared from sight. Insufficient information to determine a rate of speed or guestimates on initial altitude, or an estimate of size. My son and I are familiar with aircraft and fly regularly. At risk of sounding bias, his observational skills and ability to identify makes models and years of cars way exceeds my own, and though I am a UFO enthusiast and experiencer, he has spent the last four years telling me I am delusional, and so for him to say he wanted to make a report... Well, here we are. He would not entertain balloon, helicopter, or air clutter as an alternative. The precise time isn't known but reasonably between 1900 and 2000 hours. The date is accurate, as his experience occurred after our evening call. We speak daily, remotely. I live in Texas. He observed an aura around the artifact. This is not something I have discussed with him.
May 18, 2023 · 11:28 AM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
White ball first came down at an angle and went behind a stand of tall trees then came back out the same side and accelerated away very fast with no sonic boom. I was above clouds at times so we were thinking it was at around 5000 ft. in elevation. We saw it speed up and disappear in the clouds. No sounds. I asked my coworker how big he thought it was and he said bigger than a car. So I'm guessing as big as a van but round. I said if a plane is going 500 mph do you think it was going 1000 mph? He said faster...
April 24, 2023 · 2:32 PM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
Saw it as I was exiting SB Highway 280 in San Jose at Bird Ave. I was driving and tried to keep an eye on it as it was moving...south east. I wanted to be able to pull over and record it. I did, but my eyes lost sight of it, when my iphone was capturing it. It's not great video and is likely nothing.