2005-11-15 - Martinez, CA - Other

Glowing object moves across San Francisco Bay Area sky

At 2:30 a.m. on November 15, 2005, in Martinez (27 miles from San Francisco), my dog awakened me to take her outside to go to the bathroom. Since I had taken her out at 11:30 p.m., before I went to bed, I thought it quite unusual, but took her anyway. I was outside with enough time to sit down on my front steps when a movement in the southwest sky made me look up.

I will do my best to describe what I saw. If I had to compare the object I saw in the sky to something I have seen in my life, I would have to say it had a rectangular shape and moved somewhat in an undulating way, like a jellyfish. The outline and brightness of the thing against the dark sky was very crisp and clear. It was bright, glowing white. It had a white oval disk, which I’ll now call a head. The head seemed to lead what I’ll now call a tail. The tail was the same width as the head. The oval head was solid white and distinguishable from the tail because the tail was transparent but streaked with white light. When I say transparent, I mean I could see the dark sky behind the tail part but I could not see the dark sky behind the white oval. The tail moved in graceful, undulating like way. The object never stopped moving. It seemed to me it had a destination. At times it seemed to almost dip as it moved across t he sky, which made it seem fluid. It made no noise.

My thoughts at the time: What is THAT? It’s so much bigger than a star or plane. It’s so defined and crisp, it looks like a cartoon or a fluorescent light. The light is coming from within it. It’s graceful. It flows. It’ll be gone before I can get a camera. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I didn’t feel threatened but I was a little scared.

When I first sighted it, it appeared to be moving at me, coming from southwest direction but then began moving west. As it did so, the tail seemed to undulate, almost as if it were blowing in the wind, like you might see flag or a scarf do in a light breeze. However, there was no wind that night. The leaves were not blowing in the trees.

At some point after it began moving west, my dog noticed it. She had just finished relieving herself when it must’ve caught her attention. At 2:30 am there were no other people or animals around to distract her. My dog, a beagle, has never barked at anything in the sky before, but she looked up and began a frantic, sharp bark. She has a bay type bark but when she noticed the thing in the sky, her bark was frantic and sharp. As I recall, my dog was looking up in the direction of the thing in the sky but her head was moving as if she couldn’t quite focus. I was really surprised that she was barking at something in the sky and was having a hard time myself because I couldn’t understand what it was I was looking at.

I’m a nearly 50-year-old professional and have never seen anything like that in my life. As it was 2:30 in the morning and my dog was barking frantically and I have neighbors, so I had to pull her inside. The object in the sky was moving in a northwestly direction in an undulating way when I last saw it.


((NUFORC Note: We have spoken with this witness on several occasions, and she seems quite reliable to us. If anyone else witnessed this object, we would very much like to receive reports from the witnesses. PD))

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))