Appearance / Description of Object(s)

I saw an object that was shaped like a football. If I were to draw it, it would be a 15 degree ellipse running in the horizontal position. This object was very large and had flashing lights coming from every angle. It had the appearance of an immense amount of diamonds clustered together to form the above mentioned shape, like nothing I have ever seen before, brilliant, beautiful. At first I thought it was a blimp, but no blimp that I have ever seen in my life time that shinned in with such distinct brilliance. It was as if looking at the most brilliant diamond, or many, to many to count diamonds, you could possibly imagine throwing off so many different colors it was almost to amazing to even describe! I have never in my 46 years on this earth seen anything like it!

Size of Object(s)

1 to 1.5 inches apart. Too far away to tell, but at least the length of a 747 airliner, maybe 3 stories high; it was huge.

Description of Area / Surroundings

top of a mountain, no homes, no beacon lights, nothing up there at all.

Full Description & Details

I was walking home with my dog and noticed very bright lights or what I thought was lights on top of the mountains south of me, this was about 7pm. The area is called the Cleveland National Forest, mountains in the area of the 241 toll road and the 91 fwy. You can see them from my backyard looking south southwest.

I got home and took out my binoculars because I wanted to try and see what was going on up there on top of the mountain. There had been fires up there just a few weeks ago, so I thought at first maybe it was night construction? But that did not seem right since it is very high and rugged terrain even for firefighters. When I looked through my binoculars I saw an object that was shaped like a football. If I were to draw it, it would be a 15 degree ellipse running in the horizontal position. This object was very large and had flashing lights coming from every angle. It had the appearance of an immense amount of diamonds clustered together to form the above mentioned shape, like nothing I have ever seen before. At first I thought it was a blimp, but no blimp that I have ever seen in my life time that shinned in such brilliance. It was as if looking at the most brilliant diamond you could possibly imagine throwing off so many different colors it was almost to amazing to even describe!

I was so excited and not wanting to tell people about this and have them think I was nuts, that I ran to my neighbors house and had her look out her back yard at this object with her bare eyes and then through my binoculars. You could see the bright lights with the bare eye, but through the binoculars, you could see the actual form and the lights flashing from it. She was also extremely excited about this and saw the same thing I had seen, then it started to move she said. She had to leave her house for an appointment, so I went back home.

I observed this object for at least 15 minutes and then it just disappeared. I have never in my life seen anything like this and am not one to see flying objects and until now have not believed in such a thing. I am an Engineer by trade and consider myself to be a rational person. I wish I knew what I was looking at.

During the time I was looking at this through my binoculars, you could occasionally see what appeared to be other flying objects which I assumed were small airplanes or helicopters, they looked like little pin pricks compared to this object; it was extremely large in size and I have nothing to compare it with since it was night time and above a mountain ridge with no homes on it. Just guessing, I would say it was at least the length of a 747 airliner.

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

No, none that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I have worked in the Aerospace and Avionics Industry since 1977 and I have never seen anything like this.

Witness Background

Cable Design Engineer. Aerospace and Avionics Engineering Industry.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Before tonight, I had mixed feelings about them. I would on occasion watch shows on TV such as on TLC and find it interesting and not out of the realm of possibility since I don't put limits on God. I have felt that most people you see who say they have seen UFOs are nut cases and yet you do hear of some credible people such as airline pilots, astronauts, etc., seeing things unexplainable and I found them to be credible. I have thought it was possible, but never really cared to give it much thought beyond that. After what I saw tonight, I think there are many possibilities, one of which there are experiments going on with our government that may explain this and the only other alternative I can find is that this was indeed from either outside our planet, or from another dimension. I am finding it very difficult to calm down after this and I’m not one to get excited about something I see in the sky! I have never been one to read about UFOs until tonight at which time I started looking for something on the internet to report this incident.

Other Comments

I would appreciate it, if you get any other reports of this, whatever it was I saw, if you would let me know. I'm very glad that my neighbor was home and could see this also, so I did not feel like I'm losing my mind, or some kind of blithering idiot seeing lights in the sky! It would be nice to know if anyone else saw this tonight. Thank you.

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