Size of Object(s)

About size of small airplane

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

200 Feet - 3 miles

Shape of Object(s)

Small lights and three large white lights

Color of Object(s):

Never saw body, only lights

Full Description & Details

As we were driving along Highway 5, at about 12:45 AM on July 21st – we were south of Coalinga when we passed or were about to pass what looked like a weigh station – truckers were parked on the southbound side of the highway (we were headed north) and all of a sudden, out of my right hand passenger window a bright object – red lights, green lights, some smaller white lights (?) shot up straight into the air. I was still thinking it was something very rational I thought it might be CHP helicopter on the look out for speeders. But as time went on I felt strange. First of all it didn’t rise gradually like a helicopter does, it shot straight up in the air like an elevator only much faster. I didn’t hear any blades turning, either.

The object (I still thought it might be a helicopter) cut very rapidly across the highway, not with a slope of plane but at an angle, I have never seen anything do this. It cut just in front of us and low over the interstate, sweeping from the right side of the road to the left. Now we started to feel strange, it was moving way too fast to be a helicopter. We seemed to lose sight for a second or two and then, moving extremely rapidly, it shot with a very high speed from the left side and back across, low over the road – as if it was crashing down into the field on our right. I yelled out, “It’s a plane crash!” We both waited for the explosion to be seen and I actually braced myself thinking I would feel the crash it was so close by. (All of this happened within a mile to less than 100 feet away I would guess) We didn’t see an explosion or hear a sound. In fact, to our unease, we never heard a sound. It made no sound that we could hear. It seemed to disappear and all I saw was darkness. Then again it surfaced, this time following along with the speed of the traffic, slowly bobbing up and down. I thought the shape might have been darker than the sky behind it but I never got a good look at any shape. Now three bright, perfectly round, large lights appeared and shone on the traffic, as well as us. This was when we went from unease to genuine fear. It was as if it was pivoted, facing the traffic on I 5 and traveling at about the same speed, sideways.

We watched it for quite a while as it did this. It gradually fell behind us and I watched it through the rear window –. I watched it for probably another 2 minutes. It looked like a 747 making a landing on the highway – for some reason this made me feel even more strange. It was obviously not concerned about being hidden, but if it had been some super-secret aircraft, why would it play dangerously all around traffic in the middle of the night? When I saw it up close it looked basically the size of a small plane, but its lights made it look huge at this distance. The lights lit up park of the road and were as big around as stadium lights, huge for some sort of plane – they seemed to hover over the road and then we passed through some foothills and didn’t see them again.

Witness Background

Have a Masters Degree (am fully employed) I am NOT making this up. I was in complete disbelief until I witnessed this event. I am telling the truth but wish to remain anonymous.

Other Comments

I really wish to remain anonymous - I hope you will still post my message since I am sure at least a few dozen people saw this object.

I can tell you I am not making it up and would be reassured to know if others have seen it as well but are uneasy about posting the information.

Reported Sighting?