Unknown over Santee, CA

The report, as filed

I was going to use my telescope, but first I went outside to scout it out with my 7x35 binoculars, looking for a certain star and locate the asteroid Pallas at 9:30 PM June 28th 2019 looking East and up about 45 degrees. Caught sight of very large object over 300 feet which filled my FOV (300 feet @ 1000 yards). Object was a strange color burnt-orange/brown and looked like bird feathers painted on the outside. I saw what looked like two square panels which were also painted and attached to the exterior. It was to large to be a bird and I did not see the whole object because I locked on it at first not moving and then suddenly as I took the binoculars away from my eyes to look for it because I thought it was so large I should be able to see it, but I couldn’t see it. I tried to find it again with the binoculars but to no avail. Maybe it was cloaked and only with binoculars can you see it? I’m an astronomer, chemist, engineering technician, computer professiona! l, bird watcher and first responder and I deal with facts. I never saw anything like that and I was not able to ID it. It made no noise had no lights and was very large and right there in the air right above me.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149752). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.