Disk over Novato, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At approximately 5:40PM tonight (Friday 2-4-12) I was home with my daughter folding laundry and was about to head upstairs to put the c
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 2012-02-01 → 2012-02-18
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December 3, 2022 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Novato, CA
On our way home from Santa Cruz. We were driving north. I was in the backseat and looked west and began staring at what i thought was the moon at first because of its size and brightness. after about 10 seconds i began to realize the moon wouldnt be in that location at that time of night. the craft was glowing a bright yellow color. it was about 2:00am. about the time i realized what i was looking at the craft moved inside of a cloud which began to glow the same yellow color. I told my friends in the front seat to look. i became very emotional and began to cry out of amazement from what i was looking at. this object was massive unlike anything ive seen in the sky before. it was about 200 yards in length. my frienda began to freak out when they saw the glowing clouds. we were still driving north and about 20 seconds later the craft and cloud had dissappeared behind a hill. we turned around to try and find it again but it had vanished. we drove west instead of north attempting to chase it but no other lights were seen.
December 17, 2018 · 1:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Novato, CA
I heard a noice like the typical ufo sound (dwound-dwound repeating) like an orbiting/spinning sound, but it was louder than any other plane I’ve ever heard (though a helicopter is louder than what I heard). I only noticed it instantly because I wasn’t paying much attention because I was tired. I don’t know if the noice faded in or if it was instant. It was loud when I first noticed it but then it got quieter as it went farther away, then it became louder (not as loud as when I noticed it) right before getting quieter again till the noice faded away completely. I heard the noice for up to 5 minutes. I did not make an effort to look outside. I’ve heard this noice multiple times over the years but this time it was much louder than normal. The noice has potential of coming from maybe a big military shipment plane (like a bomber?) but then again, I’m throwing out random guesses.
December 31, 2016 · 1:32 AM · CHANGING
Novato, CA
Bright orange light slow moving at first, then moved very fast, then vanished. Bluish-green lights seemingly chasing, and then hovered, disappeared but then reappeared in a different spot. I took a few pics and video on my cell phone.
September 24, 2015 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Novato, CA
My seven friends and I were camping and in our sleeping bags preparing to sleep. We heard a low rumbling that sounded like a truck in the sky. It also sounded like a helicopter flying very low but was deeper and slower. We then saw a cigar shaped UFO moving over our campsite. It had flashing blue, green and red lights in the middle around it. It continued to move past us slowly and then out of site into the distance.
February 7, 2015 · 2:41 AM · SPHERE
Novato, CA
at 2:41am, my fiancee and I were using the google sky app to try to identify strange star formations, and the google sky app wasn't able to identify the constellations we were seeing. Then, we realized that the supposed constellations were moving from southwest, coming from the direction of the coast, and moving across the sky toward north east. We realized that the entire constellation had moved from one part of the sky, directly over us, and continued moving in formation until we could no longer see them. Waves of what looked like constellations or formations of flying stars kept coming from the southwest and crossing the entire sky, all passing over us. It took roughly five minutes for each wave of them to appear and cross over the entire skyline. However, there was one brighter "star", and once it crossed above us, it seemed to go only a few more degrees toward the northeast, until it hovered in place, then seemed to go back and forth as to stay visible to the new waves of "star" or craft formations that appeared. it would get up to 80% brighter than it's original appearance, as if it was guiding the waves of flying "star formations" that continued to appear from the southwest and travel to the northeast. We went and got our mom and her boyfriend after 2 minutes of witnessing the first wave of stars, which we thought was a constellation-but once it was over the house we realized it was moving and brought them outside. After that, we witnessed at least 6-7 formations moving across the entire sky-each had approximately 6-9 stars in formation with each wave. It looked as if Cassiopeia started to move and cross the sky, with a wave of more cassiopeia constellations successively moving across the sky. There was a lot of fog, but the moving "stars" would go behind the fog and emerge so that we could see that they had traveled and kept their momentum while continuing to fly in the! direction of the one bigger, brighter craft. They were all s! ilent. With the exception of the bigger "star" that seemed to oscillate within a small area of the sky to stay somewhat in one place as its lights grew brighter, none of the other starlike craft grew brighter. All maintained a veritable "starlike" lighted appearance. Again, no noise heard at all, no blinking red lights, and they were all way too close together to be actual airplanes. I have never seen 40 planes so close together and all traveling the same altitude, the same direction, and without any noise or without some kind of blinking identifying light for safety, especially on a foggy night. Each time the fog and clouds had a break, you would see more and more of these moving constellations, all following the brighter craft. The brighter craft seemed to have illuminated its sides, and looked triangular. However, you could only see this feature when it increased its brightness every few minutes, as if to light the way for the next wave of craft. I tri! ed to take a video with my iPad, but it captured blackness. someone please let me know the best equipment for filming at night. Please! Thanks!
September 12, 2014 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Novato, CA
I walked on my drivway to the end of the drivway, I looked up in the sky.I saw a orange round light moving from my left to my right. It was bigger then a plane and was moving at A somewhat slow speed. I looked at it for apx. 10 seconds. While I was watching it, I pulled out my cell phone and walked another 10 feet to get out from under a street light.I started filming the orange light, I could see the orange light on my phone then after another 5 to 10 seconds there was light comming from under the orange light. These lights came in the shape of an upside down funnel. The colors of these lights were a greenish, blueish, yellowish, whiteish in color. As I was watching the lights, the orange light just disappeared. I countinued to watch the lights and then the lights seem to dissipate, and after a few more seconds all the lights were gone. I went back into my house and drew a sketch of what I saw.I then contacted a local T.V. station channel 5 and asked them if anyone else reported seeing what I saw. They contacted me later by email and asked me if I would explane what I had seen,I said yes and a reporter came apx.1 hour later. Before they came I called the local police station and asked if anyone reported seeing any lights over Novato. I also sent a email to the U F O center. the reporter came and filmed me, while I explaned what I had seen.Shortly after that I recieved a call from someone from the U.F.O.Center. I had the reporter record the phone message from my phone from the U.F.O.Center. I called back to the center and followed his instruction to file a report. I don't know what I saw, it was there