As reported

Oval over Los Gatos, CA

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Watched a silent bright white tic-tak fly silently by at high-speed, possibly 2,000 knots, heading approximately 200° I would estimate the altitude to be 6,000 agl. The skies at the time were clear. Visibility about 50 miles. About the size of a small plane. I’m a 10,000 hour+ commercial pilot and know this wasn’t a shooting star, known military jet, commercial drone or optical illusion. The craft had well defined borders. No sonic boom.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171622). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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