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California Pilot Reports UFO

Monday November 26, 2007
A very detailed sighting of a UFO by an airplane pilot was relayed to me by the National UFO Reporting Center (www.nuforc.org). The sighting occurred on a flight from Oakland, CA to Burbank, CA on October 8, 2007. The plane was just south of Manteca VOR, a navigational aid near Manteca, CA, when the pilot first noticed something out of the ordinary. The plane was on a mostly southern course, when off to the pilot's right, or west about nine o'clock, he saw an unusually colored object. The unknown craft was fairly comparable in altitude, but somewhat distant, and instead of the usual white color, the pilot was clearly seeing a bright yellow. He immediately reported this to his First Officer.

As the plane continued its course, both the Captain and First Officer kept a watch on the UFO, which was growing brighter and larger as time went by. Soon, the object began to take shape: it had on the top a semi-spherical shape, and the bottom was very clearly a "V" shape. Requesting a traffic report from Oakland center, they were told that nothing appeared in their nine o'clock position. Over time, the object grew to the size of a four inch square on the window, although without a reference point, they could not ascertain its size.

Finally, the unknown object took a different course, and left their sight with great speed. The pilot could not state without doubt that the object was a true UFO, but did state that in his many years of flying he had never seen anything like it in the skies.

Comments

November 26, 2007 at 11:31 am
(1) gary says:

I guess that the only way for ufo’s to be taken seriously is for one to crash land in a city because there are many reports of politicians, policeman, pilots etc seeing these unidentified flying objects yet no governments seem to take these incidents seriously enough, one prime example is the eye witnesses accounts of ohare airport in chicago.peace out.

December 3, 2007 at 4:16 pm
(2) Patrick Sullivan says:

This appears to be a ‘Classic’ type of ‘Marking’ event by ‘ET.’
Who was on that plane?
If we search the list of passengers or freight, we may find something or someone of interest to us all.
Our nuclear war fighting elite still have plans to exterminate us all with the use of nuclear weapons.

December 3, 2007 at 11:03 pm
(3) john....... says:

i would like to see alien ship crash right on main street usa..gov will have to think of other excuses other than weather baloon. thousands will see it. think about it GOV!!! its coming soon!!

December 5, 2007 at 9:12 am
(4) Yvonne M. S. says:

I know that the pilot saw something he will never forget, I agree with John a alien ship should crash right on Main Street, what would the GOVERNMENT say then, I would love front row seats Au revoir Yvonne

December 8, 2007 at 1:18 pm
(5) Ann says:

Of course, you know what would happen if one did crash in a major populated area. Besides government involvement, military evacuation and quarantine, skeptics, who are always given more press attention, like James Randi, would say it was “mass hysteria.” And, in the end everyone would go about their daily lives wondering if UFOs exist.

March 7, 2008 at 11:33 pm
(6) kim says:

Oh my god me and my husban and neighbor seen something like that on the same night in manteca but it was low and flew by real slow and when we noticed it and i pointed it flew by super fast it was v shape and very dark no lights it scared the crap out of us

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