Circle over Santa Margarita, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving El. Camino Real westward towards Santa Margarita, CA. (approx. 4 miles away from town) during a busy traffic after work. Nearing dusk, clear bright darken blue sky with a noticeable large white cloud (west) that was a form of a circle with an opening in the middle with light-faded cloud beams coming out of it, below were 2-small very bright circles that seem to move/change shapes that got my attention to pull my car over and take pictures and a video. After viewing the photos with enlargement, I can see the different formations that start as a circle, flattens out in a rectangle, and then to crescent shaped with opposite directions. 1-disappears before the other. The large cloud appeared approx. 10 mins longer after the shapes were gone. Rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138031). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-19 → 2018-01-05
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