Cigar over El cerrito, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
large pen shaped craft floating below airplane much lower in altitude, the UAP was proportionately larger than the airplane at a further distance. Crawled at a slow pace moving south, from my vantage point it moved from the golden gate bridge towards the south bay, I lost vision behind a tree. Looked as if I was to hold a pen at arms length in terms of size, physically seemed to be floating across the middle of the bay, between SF and the East Bay
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174133). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-22 → 2023-02-08