Teardrop over Santa Monica, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 6:39 a.m. on Sunday morning (Dec. 15th 2019), I was walking down the alley behind our apartment in mid-city Santa Monica, California to my car. The sun was not out yet, but it was already easy to see outside. As I neared my vehicle, I observed a wingless, flying craft at an approximately 2000-foot (600m) altitude traveling in a northwest direction toward the Santa Monica mountain range. The craft, had an an oblong disc shape, much like a horseshoe crab (without a tail). It was wingless, silent and traveling rapidly. It was glowing a bioluminescent-like blue-green color. The color definitely seemed to emote from within, not from exterior lights or a reflection. It was more reminiscent of a deep-sea creature than a flying vehicle. As the sky was already a faint hue of blue, it was easy to see there were neither wings or propellers on the craft. There was a faint white shadow-trail following it, giving it more of a teardrop appearance than it actually had. This did not appear to be exhaust, but something more electrical or energy oriented. My best estimate on craft size is 10-40 feet (4m-12m) in diameter flying at 1500-3000 feet (450m-900m ) at velocity of 400-600 (650km-960km) miles an hour. I did not see windows, but there appeared to be four folds in the material of the crafts underbelly, appearing as barely visible lines going from front to back. I looked online a few hours later and expected to see hundreds of eyewitness testimonies, but saw none. From earth or beyond, I would really like to know what this thing was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151688). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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