Teardrop over Diablo/Martinez, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As I was driving south on I-680 I noticed a teardrop shaped craft silver and shiny flying over Mt. Diablo mountain range. At first I thought it was a plane. As I approached the Highway 4 interchange the object was still there and I noticed it was silver with no wings. It appeared to slow down. After less than 1 minute it appeared to fly off to the west so fast I couldn’t see it, in a second it was gone. Just a note it’s Fleetweek here in The Bay Area. And the direction it flew was toward SF bay.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172271). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-10-06 → 2022-10-23