Triangle over Watsonville, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I reported it to the FAA and U. S. Coast Guard, and found out the next day there was reports up and down the California coast of the exact thing I had seen. The scariest part of my experience was watching it fly with intelligence and as odd as it may sound. When it noticed me noticing it, it changed course and flew away.. Triangle shaped no other color but red and could stop and go at will and hover. Never seen anything like it. Made me shake in fear! We believe that the report was submitted by the party who had just telephoned the Hotline, but we cannot be certain it is the same person. This is one of two reports from the Watsonville, CA, area, submitted by the same person. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116542). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-12-29 → 2015-01-15
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