2004-04-14 - Dana Poinr, CA - Triangle

I saw a triangular shaped object glide through the sky, stall for a split second and then shoot off at a high rate of speed.

I went outside to see three stealth fighters following each other making a larger circular pattern of about six miles over southern Orange County (about 3thousand feet high. After the fourth pass three of us looked straight up and saw a triangular shaped object crossing the sky heading northwest away from the counter clockwise circling of the stealth fighters. It was much higher, about 5-10 thousand feet. It was not triangular like the stealth planes. It looked like an equilateral triangle. You could see the outline of it but when you looked to the center of it, it looked transparent as if you were seeing the dark sky above it. In each corner there was a dim white light much like the dots on a domino. It when across the sky for a few seconds and then seemed to stall and shimmer or vibrate and then it shot across the sky and disappeared. The speed that it disappeared at had to have been 10 to 20 times faster that its original speed, maybe thousands of miles per second. This speed is hard to describe but it wasn't as fast as a bolt of lightning you see in the sky. After it disappeared, a few seconds we heard a boom in the distance but thought it might have been from Camp Pendleton.