2007-12-12 - Isla Vista, CA - Oval

Santa Barbara oval silver disk spotted at 9:30 am, over the sea.

On December 12, 2007 at approximately 9:30 A.M., I was inside an office located in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara County, California, 93117, when I heard a couple of people outside talking about seeing something metallic in the sky.

I went outside with my friend, and I immediately and asked what they were looking at, and they replied, a UFO. We asked where, and they said,” It is above the second palm tree” and I looked and saw it. It was perfectly still. It was a clear day, and I could see that the sun was glinting off of the object, which was the cover of silver, and it was not twinkling, or anything, other than the light of the sun reflecting off of it. The surface seemed to be more muted, like the difference between glossy prints and matted prints of photographs. It was reflecting the sun, but not in a glare like airplanes do for example. The other 2 guys, who called our attention to it, said it had been bigger, huge, they called it, about the size of the moon, and it had just moved away, distally, and went from being that size to the size of a star, where it paused. They pointed out the object to me which was located above a palm tree, over the ocean, at approx. 45 degree angle in the sky. We were about a block from the ocean, in the down town area of Isla Vista. I immediately spotted it in the sky, and it looked smooth and oval or circular and was perfectly still. I asked one of the other spotters, who had his camera out if he had managed to photograph it and he said no, and as I reached for my cell phone camera, it zoomed away very fast. It was getting smaller and smaller until it was gone. It took it probably less than 2 seconds to disappear.

There were at least 4 of us who saw it, perhaps more. At the time, there was about 15 people there, however most were distracted by breakfast, and conversations. I think that only about 4 or 5 of us actually saw it. From our advantage point, it looked to me to be over the sea, probably only about 3 miles out. I do not think I would have seen it if not for the fact that it was about a hand’s with above the palm tree, and the other spotters gave good directions on where to look for it. When I saw it, I noted my feelings about it, and I felt calm, which was unusual as normally just the thought of them scares me a lot. As an aside, some have said they show up when there are military things going on, and the night before, approx. 15 hours earlier, on December 11, 2007 at 6:31 P. M. Vandenberg Air Force Base shot off a rocket carrying a spy satellite. I do swear that this report is exactly what I experienced this morning, and is a factual account of what I saw and experienced.