Changing over nipomo, CA

The report, as filed

I had just got home and was in the process of getting some food for my dog when i noticed this glowing orange light moving across the night sky. There were no clouds, and the stars were out in number, very crisp and clear night. It seemed rather low, this light, and at the speed it was travelling I took it for a helicopter with a search light on, which is nonsense, there was no beam of light as a search light would give off, they are not orange, but that was my first thought. I expected to see some kind of outline of a helicopter and waited for some noise, but nothing was presented. Total silence, which is what really made me take pause. The sphere then ascended, its movement more like floating rather than something propelled. As it rose, it seemed to lengthen out, the orange ball became more stretched out into a ovular shape. At this point, it stopped moving for about ten seconds then the orange light went out from the front to the back and was replaced with a fuzzy whitish blue. It popped, or split in half, the orange light returned for the front with a kind of fuzz or blur with it, and remained still, while the other light, the back part, took off away from where it had been blinking and white. This continued for a few seconds, and it seemed almost at times like I was watching an optical illusion, as if they would look like they were coming towards me then they were right back where they were, simmering and elastic, then they both completely disappeared. That’s it, I didn’t just come from the bar, and im not on any drugs, just a random crazy thing that left me quite perplexed and man, its movement was so fluid and graceful, really something else. Strangely beautiful.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174374). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.