Unknown over Santee, CA

The report, as filed

On June 28, 2019 approximately 9 PM I went outside as usual to look at the night sky and see if it was clear enough to bring out the telescope and ended up seeing something which “I did not know what it was” and it frightened me enough that I ran back inside. For less than a minute I saw up in the sky the painted surface of something which was stationary and silent, above me at about 45 degree angle from the horizon while using my binoculars. I didn’t see the entire object but what I saw was unusually large, I guessed the part I saw was over 300 feet wide and very tall maybe 150 feet because it filled my field of view, it had no lights, silent and the surface was painted like a bird, it had burnt-orange-brown colored feathers “painted” on the hull. I saw some detail on the surface, an outline of two rectangles intersecting on the surface of the craft which looked like hatches or access panels. I dropped the binoculars from my eyes and looked and could not see it. I made a half ass attempt to locate it again with the binoculars but no luck, I was frightened and I wanted to go back inside quickly away from it. I don’t know what it was. I don’t think we can make a craft like that yet though. I believe my binoculars helped see past the cloaking they were using, it is the only explanation as to why I couldn’t see it when not looking through the binoculars. It was huge and cloaked and real.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161976). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.