Size of Object(s)

golf ball

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

hard to say, maybe 10 miles

Shape of Object(s)

round

Color of Object(s):

very red light

Full Description & Details

While driving north on freeway 101 approximately at the Canoga Avenue exit, my wife and I saw very cleary a red object moving rapidly from east to west that appeared to be above the west valley mountain range but distance was not possible to estimate. The object at first had a red trail behind it like a meteor, which was what I thought I was witnessing. However, the object was moving sideways maintaining about the same altitude and not 'falling' like a meteorite normally falls, i.e. in a downward direction. As I watched more closeley I noticed a distinct blue cone of air in advance of the object, as if it was causing the air to turn 'blue' hot in front of its advance. We pulled over so I could focus on it instead of the traffic. It was directly in my front windshield and easy field of view. I kept trying to determine what it could be and came quickly to the conclusion that I had not ever seen anything flying like this before. As it crossed my field of view it began to slow. As it slowed, the blue cone became smaller and smaller until the object stopped altogether and the blue cone disappeared, leaving just a large red dot in the sky. At that point, if one had not been looking at it closely, it could have been lost against the stars, except that it was much larger than a star. It looked like the size of a golf ball, say ten to twnety times larger than a star and it was very red. After a few minutes watching it stand still, we drove on and continued to keep our eye on it. When I reached the Mulholland exit, it was still at about the same angle in the sky, making me think it was still several miles away. At that point, it started moving again. Only this time it receded, striaght up and way from us. Again the blue cone appeared, but because of the changed direction, the blue cone was a round circle and no longer cone shaped. It encircled the object making me think it was receding up and the blue cone was in front of it still but appeared round because it was not going across the sky. It began to get smaller and smaller and the blue circle also became smaller and smaller. As the size decreased it became more faint. This continued until it became too small to see any longer. The total time elasped was about 15 minutes. To this day it is vivid in my memory and I wrote down the whole thing later that night when I got home. I consider myself an open minded skeptic. I have no use for beliefs or opinions. Its either facts or I am happy to say "I don't know". I dont' know what this was, but I am certain that I saw exactly what I describe and that it was not anything like a plane, jet, missile or similar object form one of the nearby bases. I have seen too many of those to know it could not have been anything military.

Witness Background

I am a construction manager working in the real estate development and building business. My specialty is high rise buildings. At the time of the sighting I was an estimator for a concrete company. I have a degree in economics. I speak two languages (French as a second language). I have a very high IQ, over 140. I have studied physics and mathematics extensively during high school and college. I attended high school at a private boarding school in England. I believe in nothing. I am only interested in facts. I have always been extremely stable and have never had any psychological or physical problems. I am a senior executive at an international building firm based in San Jose.

Other Comments

It is good that you are doing this. There must be many people such as myself who have seen unusual things flying around and who have not reported them for one reason or another. In 1977 I would have never reported this for fear of being scorned but today things are chaning thanks to people like you. I consider it a high mathematical probablity that, in an infinite universe, other intelligent beings must exist.

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