Disk over Corte Madera, CA
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The report, as filed
I was standing on a hilltop looking to the east with a pair of Bushnell binoculars when my eyes come upon a luminous red disc or football shaped craft against a hill in Corte Madera which is basically on the south side of the Corte Madera Marina where a series of hills overlook San Francisco Bay and these hills also include Tiburon-Mill Valley area to the southeast. This craft was huge and a dark red almost like a dark cherry red. It was totally lit up and glowing. I could'nt really see any details except it was basically disc shaped and maybe 100 feet long and not very tall. It looked like 2 plates joined together. This object looked totally different than anything else I've seen lately and it looked like it was sitting on the west side of this hill on the grass. During my 5 to 10 minutes I watched this object it moved from right to left about 200 yards really slow like at a walking pace. Then it just seemed to disappear like a light switch turning off. There were several other craft in the immediate area but they were really low key and barely visible unless you had binoculars. There was no sound heard except for the crickets outside. This is the second time in 9 days I believe I've seen a landed craft in this same spot and the other night on 9-12-14 I just happened to be filming with a camcorder and captured a craft that changed color from orange to white and basically moved from right to left about 200 yards on this hill. It could be that it was flying or hovering in front of the hill but even that is basically impossible for a normal aircraft. These craft (with the exception of the red disc) all look the same. They look like an ice cream cone turned sideways so the white light or orangish light is on the left and there is a black pointed tail shape to the right. They look like craft seen on Area 51 footage that I've seen in amateur footage. There were other white and orange lights that joined this craft that I have on f! ilm on 9-12-14 and a second craft looks like it's sitting on t! he right corner on the top of this hill.Anyway this hill in Corte Madera has these huge objects that approach from the east and hover over the left corner of this hill like a lit up Christmas tree and then they go backwards and down on the S.F. Bay side of the hill and then either the same object or another identical object will do the exact same thing and sink down behind the hill. If you are standing up in the hills you can really notice this activity and I wish more people would notice this. Any doubts I had that these might be conventional aircraft seen at a distance were laid to rest one night in April of this year when I was directly involved in one of the most bizarre close encounters-landing-other worldly encounter that was so unbelievable I still can't believe it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113804). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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