Oval over San Ramon, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Red oval light with 2 white lights ejected from it at one point
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 2013-07-28 → 2013-08-14
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August 30, 2019 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
San Ramon, CA
At 7:20PM this evening my wife and I were sitting on a bench in out backyard. I was looking up at the southern sky about 35 degrees above the horizon and spotted a very small but very bright light source that quickly dimmed and brightened as it appeared to be stationary but rising rapidly. My thought at the time was that it was an irregularly shaped object reflecting the light of the setting sun, and the intensity of the light ranged from ‘out’ to very bright. At the same time, however, it appeared to be climbing rapidly. After about a minute my wife was able to see it as well. Again, it was a deep orange color, varied greatly in brightness, was as small as a small star (like half the size of Sirius, but visible in daylight), and rising. I was able to see it in binoculars but only briefly. I would believe it was well above regular aircraft altitudes, and near the height of a satellite, but again stationary and climbing. No sound could be heard. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 16, 2018 · 1:45 PM · CYLINDER
San Ramon, CA
I was sitting at a traffic light heading back to work. This was in broad daylight during lunchtime. I just happened to look up through my front windshield when I noticed a silver, metallic, cylindrical object that seemed to be spiraling towards the earth. There were no wings, protrusions or sound coming from this object. I thought that it would have to crash and make a large boom, but it continued to spiral down and went behind the tree line where I could no longer see it. I never heard any booms or saw any indications of a crash. I checked the news and other sources of media to see if anyone else reported it, but no such luck.
September 10, 2018 · 6:50 PM · CYLINDER
San Ramon, CA
http://lightsinthetexassky.blogspot.com/2010/07/navy-veteran-witnesses-cylinder-shaped.html We saw another higher flying airliner a few minutes later and although about twice the altitude could see its wings clear as day. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 20, 2016 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
San Ramon, CA
Is someone releasing very large donut shaped balloons that fly very high? The whole family was just outside playing ball and riding bikes on street out in front of our house and we saw this thing floating through the sky very high up. It looked just like the one in the article I linked below. It was very high and very large as several commercial jets flew by as well and it ended up going into the same clouds so we could make a decent comparison. It didn't make any abrupt moves other than to come to a dead stop and then proceed a couple times. We watched it for about 5 minutes before I lost it in the clouds. My guess is someone released a very big circular donut shaped balloon... but if so I'd think that could be dangerous to air traffic flying so high up. http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2012/03/donut-shaped-ufo-seen-over-new-york.html
February 10, 2016 · 5:20 AM · TEARDROP
San Ramon, CA
It was a point of light travelling slowly westward from about 5 deg west of Polaris, with a faint, comet-like tail protruding sideways toward the north. The end of the tail seemed to end in a roughly spherical cloud. It traveled westward for about 45 seconds where I lost sight of about 15 deg above a relatively brighter horizon. The fuzzy teardrop-shaped feature was large - about three times the diameter of a full moon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 5, 2015 · 6:30 PM · FLASH
San Ramon, CA
Our living room window face north where we have a clear view of Mt. Diablo. This particular evening, my daughter and I were home while my husband was at work teaching evening classes. While our daughter was doing her homework at the table, I was getting ready to close our blinds. I saw this white streak of light or something that caught my attention and it flew from left to right near the top of Mount Diablo from my vantage point. Having only been here since June of last summer, we were excited to be back in California from North Carolina. My hair stood on end because in my mind, I knew what I saw and while I was processing this, I didn't t want to believe this. I asked around and apparently found out that this area in the Central Valley/East Bay (San Ramon) area is known to be a hot spot for activity. This truly scares me because I'm so used to hearing/seeing this in the media but never did I expect to see what I had seen that evening. It truly scares me. I won't go near there as I know people hike the territory etc., when I drive into work every morning, to be honest, I'm scared to death of walking to my car because it's so dark and creepy here. It really is. For anyone that knows this area well, it is. I wish we had known this prior to moving here.