2013-11-02 - Santa Rosa, CA - Triangle

Small, silent, unlit triangle craft

My fiancé and I were lying on our backs in the back yard, looking at the stars. We had just seen a really long, bright meteorite and were hoping for more.

All of a sudden she sat up and exclaimed, "What IS that??" I looked in the direction she was looking, approximately West, and caught movement immediately with my peripheral vision. As we watched it I went through a mental check list. Too big and fast to be a bird. To fast and straight-flying to be a balloon. Too silent and close to be an airplane.

As we watched it gliding silently past our rooftop, looking as though it was basically flying down the street we live on, it was blocking out stars and we could clearly see an outline created by the lights below reflecting off of what looked like a grey or silver underbelly.

I also had the impression that there may have been some barely-glowing lights along the trailing edge, perhaps four, but it was so dimly-lit that I can't be sure of that at all. As I watched it disappear into the night I said, "That was a ((word deleted)) UFO!!!"

I asked my fiancé if she had been able to make out the shape of it. She held her two thumbs and index fingers up and made the shape of an obtuse isosceles triangle, which was exactly what I had seen.

It was impossible to accurately gauge size, speed and distance, but our impression was that it was less than 500 yards away, probably 20-30ft from wingtip to wingtip, and moving 20-50mph.