Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It was silent. It was moving slow and seemed to be only 50-100ft off the ground. It was disc for the most part much like if you were to take two plates and stack one upside down onto the other. It wasn't just a disc shape though. Imagine you have the two plates again now take 3-4 small plates, saucers, stacked properly or and set the original two on top of them. That would be pretty much to scale. A large disc section with this lower section roughly 2/3 the diameter of the main section protruding. This lower section is round and flat on the bottom, it has a taper to it. Smaller at the bottom tapering to somewhat larger where it was joined with the large disc section. All around the edge smaller bottom section were panels, each a rectangle, but only about 30 around the entire ship. These panels ran the entire height of the lower section, the bottom had no features that I recall. Each panel lit with each color imaginable, changing colors every second, not in some uniform pattern, it seemed each was doing its own thing. All metal on the craft seemed to be dark, dull. My attention was on these panels.

Size of Object(s)

50-60 ft in diameter, due to it being almost above me I cannot estimate the height

Description of Area / Surroundings

Suburban. There was a 6 lane street roughly 100 yards behind me at the time, river within 1/2 mile. 2 AFB open at the time Mather AFB and McClellan AFB. Aerojet space propulsion lab. My Grandpa actually worked there for 33 years. Hydro power within 20 miles. I think Rancho Seco was closed by then but its like 75 miles to the southeast.

Full Description & Details

I wish I could put a date to this. I was very young roughly 4-6 but I want to say 5. This puts the time frame between 1991 and 1993. I believe it was in the late summer months possibly early fall. It was dark so the time would be roughly 7pm to 9pm PST. Couldn't be much later than that I would've been forced into bed at around 8:30. Fair Oaks, CA. Roughly 15-20 miles east of Sacramento. Within 1/2 mile of the American River.

It was silent. It was moving slow and seemed to be only 50-100ft off the ground. It was disc for the most part much like if you were to take two plates and stack one upside down onto the other. It wasn't just a disc shape though. Imagine you have the two plates again now take 3-4 small plates, saucers, stacked properly or and set the original two on top of them. That would be pretty much to scale. A large disc section with this lower section roughly 2/3 the diameter of the main section protruding. This lower section is round and flat on the bottom, it has a taper to it. Smaller at the bottom tapering to somewhat larger where it was joined with the large disc section. All around the edge smaller bottom section were panels, each a rectangle, but only about 30 around the entire ship. These panels ran the entire height of the lower section, the bottom had no features that I recall. Each panel lit with each color imaginable, changing colors every second, not in some uniform pattern, it seemed each was doing its own thing.

I was on the lawn of my grandfathers house. I believe some family members had been over that evening and they were about to leave. There were roughly 5 of us out there. I saw the craft, low and slow, going right down my street towards the river. I reached out for it and started running after it as fast a small boy can. I recall one of my sisters screaming at me to stop. It was all so fast. I reach out and start running, simultaneously she starts screaming, "No Matthew Stop!" I didn't. I ran about 25 yards and I was keeping up with its slow pace but suddenly it sped up and I mean like snap your fingers, boom, it's gone.

I've asked all my sisters about this incident none of them recall this ever happening, but I know at least one of them was there. Brought it up to a few family members but I don't get taken seriously. Guess I'm crazy.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

I wish.

Witness Background

I'm a young adult but at the time I was a child.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Lets see I was a child so I knew nothing at the time. Now I wouldn't look at someone sideways if they told me they saw one. I would probably hug them.

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