Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The outline of the object was difficult to discern for me and appeared to be changing shape though my girlfriend believed it maintain more or less of an oval shape. The lights were very deep in color and blinked almost continuously. The brightness of the object was less than Sirius but definitely more than most stars. The object maintained a uniform brightness and only changed color.

Size of Object(s)

Relative size when the object when it was closest was about an eighth inch or less. When it was very far it was barely visible. Actual size was about the size of a Cessna though I have no experience judging the size of airborne objects.

Description of Area / Surroundings

The area is rural and consists of almost entirely agricultural land. The closest airport is Salinas airport which approx. 40 miles north from the initial sighting location. There are few to no lights on the mountain range (Santa Lucia) that the object was near. It was a fairly clear night and there were 1 maybe 2 conventional aircraft seen around the time or after the object was seen.

Full Description & Details

My long time girlfriend and I were driving to my parent’s house on the Friday of memorial weekend. We saw the object's lights mainly as it was night and the lights on it were not much brighter than the stars. The object moved in many different directions and the lights blinked almost continuously and changed colors including red, white, blue, yellow and orange. The object initially seemed to split into two (resembling binary stars) and rejoined fairly quickly maybe after about 3 seconds. When split the 2 new objects they would stay very close together typically but also departed from each other on one occasion. After viewing it for about 5 minutes the object began to maintain a fixed position directly out of the driver side window at less than 5,000 feet and seemed to fly parallel to our vehicle. The object clearly wasn't an aircraft because it moved in any direction it wanted and flew quickly. Upon seeing the object my girlfriend and I began to feel very nervous and anxious. This continued for about 3 to 4 minutes and something very interesting happened. Simultaneously we began to feel the negative feelings depart and we totally relaxed within about a minute. The only thing I have experienced that was similar was when I was given a muscle relaxant before surgery. I was extremely nervous and anxious going into surgery and when I was given the shot I just felt it leave me. This was followed by a presence that seemed to envelop the vehicle though there were no mechanical reactions by the vehicle. We did not feel threatened or any type of pain though a very dim bluish/white glow could be seen in the interior of the car. Also we could feel a very slight tingling sensation on our skin. While this was happening the object moved from out of my window to a position above and behind the vehicle and was last seen there. Also we felt a sensation of compression in the frontal lobe area of our brains though this lasted only maybe 3 to 4 minutes just before the object was no longer visible and was much more acute in my girlfriend. We were left with a very positive feeling after the sighting. This lasted well into the next day for both of us.

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

No. The object maintained a speed close to the one of my vehicle indicating it wasn't a fixed wing aircraft and the object moved in directions at speeds that are impossible for a helicopter to duplicate. Also the object did not display convention red/green lights or the headlight type lights than planes use at lower altitudes.

Witness Background

I am a 3rd year undergraduate psychology student at Cal State Northridge. I spent two years in the Marine Corps as a machine gunner when I graduated from high school. I haven't been to combat or encountered any severe stress as a result of my enlistment. My girlfriend has finished a Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of California Santa Barbara and works full time as a credit manager.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I am studying undergraduate psychology and I have done a few analysis of abduction that included material from this web site previous to the sighting. I suffer from sleep paralysis and I was very intrigued by psychology's tendency to use that to explain abduction. I have never seen extraterrestrials during an episode of paralysis or in any dreams though I have seen 2 UFOs lucid dreaming. I am very skeptical of extraterrestrial existence and have observed other objects but not as conclusively as the one I am describing here. I have read most of the sighting accounts on this web site as well looked at all the pictures and read the main subjects such as ancient astronauts, and CE-5 encounters. I have read through all of the abduction accounts and briefly visited many of the links like the one to Bud Hopkins' page. All of this was previous to the sighting.

Other Comments

I have read extensively about the CE-5 encounters and desire to experience one of those greatly. I have done some limited exercises to encourage lucid dreaming in the context of extraterrestrials but I haven't been successful. I have had two short lucid dreams about UFOs. One of the dreams I had was frustrating because when my will took over in the dream I attempted to move to a better vantage point of the UFO many times but each time the UFO would move just barely out of my view. The other made me very anxious and I felt extremely young in the dream and I was lucid dreaming but my body was frozen. I had a very clear mental picture of the UFO in the last dream.

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