Lake New Melones California sighting
This happened years ago, but I thought I'd mention it in passing.
My ex-wife and I were camping at Lake New Melones resevoir, it's just outside of Angels Camp, CA. At that time there was a drought condition and the lake water level was very low and as a result, we nearly had the entire campground to ourselves.
Around 11:30pm, we were sitting by the campfire and we both noticed a light on the horizon moving very slow from left to right, just a single dot of white light. It was difficult to determine the distance but my guess was approx. a mile away. I knew that there were not airports or air traffic around that area (it's in the middle of nowhere), and besides that, this object was too low and moving too slowly to be any type of high flying commercial aircraft.
This may sound rather incredible, but I picked up my flashlight that I had sitting next to my chair and on a whim, shined it at it. To our dismay, the object darted vertically downward and fast, stopped on a dime and continued its same slow left to right direction, apparently reacting to the light I had shined in its direction. There was no sound associated with this object and it's speed ruled out anything such as a helicopter.
We both looked at each other, and I had to ask her.. "did you just see THAT?!"
We both got the creeps and by 1am, we had everything packed up and was heading back home!
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD))
This happened years ago, but I thought I'd mention it in passing.
My ex-wife and I were camping at Lake New Melones resevoir, it's just outside of Angels Camp, CA. At that time there was a drought condition and the lake water level was very low and as a result, we nearly had the entire campground to ourselves.
Around 11:30pm, we were sitting by the campfire and we both noticed a light on the horizon moving very slow from left to right, just a single dot of white light. It was difficult to determine the distance but my guess was approx. a mile away. I knew that there were not airports or air traffic around that area (it's in the middle of nowhere), and besides that, this object was too low and moving too slowly to be any type of high flying commercial aircraft.
This may sound rather incredible, but I picked up my flashlight that I had sitting next to my chair and on a whim, shined it at it. To our dismay, the object darted vertically downward and fast, stopped on a dime and continued its same slow left to right direction, apparently reacting to the light I had shined in its direction. There was no sound associated with this object and it's speed ruled out anything such as a helicopter.
We both looked at each other, and I had to ask her.. "did you just see THAT?!"
We both got the creeps and by 1am, we had everything packed up and was heading back home!
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD))
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Angels Camp
USA
3 min
3 min
light
CA
Occurred : 6/1/1995 23:00 (Entered as : 06/01/1995 23:00) Reported: 3/31/2005 2:43:23 PM 14:43 Posted: 5/24/2005 Location: Angels Camp/Lake New Melones, CA Shape: Light Duration: 3 min
Lake New Melones California sighting