Circle over Sebastopol, CA
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The report, as filed
Circular fast-moving object appears in early evening sky in Northern California.
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 2012-11-10 → 2012-11-27
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September 25, 2022 · 8:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Sebastopol, CA
At about 8:30pm, 9/25, I looked up into the sky and saw an object coming toward me and my family overhead. In a matter of about 2 seconds I discerned it was large, dark and rectangular, and it was swiftly gliding past, lengthwise. It was silent. It had a "belly" of a single line of lights running down its length that flashed on and off one-by-one in order -- I recall them being red, blue, green, and white. I called out to my family to look, as we were outside eating. But then just as soon as I saw it and called out, the object literally "snapped" out of vision and was gone from sight for about 2 more seconds. And then, as it was directly overhead, it snapped back on and was fully visible for 2 more seconds. At this point, one of my daughters also saw it. However, she was the only other one who saw it during that second phase of visibility because she was not under the sun umbrella we had left up (my husband and son had an obstructed view and didn't see any of it). And then it snapped back off and was completely gone. Perspective is difficult to discern when something is in the sky, but my daughter and I had the first impression that it was huge. And about the distance up of about a small aircraft. I'd guess it was the width of my minivan and triple its length. It was clearly rectangular and dark gray, perhaps metallic. The lights were small, circular LED-like brightness. It was utterly silent. It "phased" into visibility, out of visibility, back into visibility, and then was completely gone in just a matter of no more than 6-8 seconds seconds. There were no clouds between us, though it was an overcast night. I'd reached for my phone to record it, but I was only able to start recording after the object had already disappeared for good.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Sebastopol, CA
Launch of Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB. PD
May 3, 2018 · 8:30 AM · OTHER
Sebastopol, CA
This entire event was observed with a gen 1+ or gen 2 type Russian surplus night vision scope. On three separate occasions, I have witnessed what appear to be "satellites" crossing the early evening sky, but demonstrating maneuvers that would be impossible for a traditional orbiting craft. What these appear to be are orbital or perhaps sub-orbital craft, stopping, changing flight paths, sudden alternative movements, etc. However, this latest event, on the evening of May 3, is unique, in that shortly after the mystery "satellite" object was spotted almost directly overhead, heading due north, then stopping and reversing flight path heading due south . . . three military type jets at very high altitude followed behind in tight formation. This may have been coincidence, or perhaps directly related, I have no way of knowing, but included (via email) is a diagram of the actual event, exactly as witnessed. Though the three military type jets were at high altitude, they could clearly be seen with the naked eye. The "satellite" or sub orbital object however, could be clearly seen in the night vision scope, but was barely visible to the naked eye, and soon faded from view as it passed overhead toward the horizon, due south.
February 21, 2017 · 7:45 PM
Sebastopol, CA
Sitting in hot tub watching southern sky it came from the west horizontally and went east - traveled in our sight and out of sight in 45 seconds - amazingly fast. Had just been watching planes and they would take several minutes to come and go... This had red lights only - on continuously. It was moving! No sound or sonic boom - very interesting. Went on line to see if I could find out what it was but can't seem to locate anything... ?
February 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Sebastopol, CA
Not sure of the exact date. What I saw was a brilliant light that flashed real fast, once like an l.e.d., instant on, instant off for just a millisecond every one minute six seconds. It happened like six or seven times. I ran inside and got my girlfriend and told her to look at this spot, sure enough, boom, she sees it three times gets scared and goes back in the house. It continued several more times and stopped. It stayed stationary with the stars, it wasn't a satellite, or a plane. Have you had any other people report anything like this? I didn't see a craft of any kind or movement. (( Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD)
July 11, 2015 · 12:11 PM · LIGHT
Sebastopol, CA
It was 12:11 and I saw a reflection of light on my blinds. I very slowly lifted my blinds and I saw 8 light in a straight line and 2 red lights under it and they were flashing. Occasionally there was a very small dim light shooting under it towards the ground. It took it a hour to start moving and when it did it moved slowly but then it appeared a few miles away. I was watching youtube so I jumped on to that and 20 minutes later it was gone. I have yet to see it again. I fear that it was over my house because it was only 2 or 4 houses away from mine. We suspect that the report may be a hoax. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD