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UFO Sighting Report

Date:

February, 1996

Location:

San Francisco, California, United States

Summary:

A black sphere with flames flickering off it's body and exhibiting navagational manuevers and independent intellegent control flew over downtown San Francisco.

Date Reported:

3/25/2005 3:41:57 AM

Comments about the image(s): Hi, This is Joe Perez I had submitted a sighting to you that occurred to me in February of 1996 in San Francisco (this is how to find it in your database). The black fireball sighting in Union Square. Although it took me awhile to get back to you, here is a photo of the area over the hotel that the sighting occurred. The shorter hotel in the middle foreground with the line of dark windows surrounding it along its top floor near its roof is where I was located. The object flew slowly across the foreground of this photo at about the level of the dark window panes. It's travel from the photos perspective is from the left to the right, the large hotel on the photos right side is the hotel that obscured my view before it came back(see my description) I also included an illustration of what I saw. Please post these with my sighting that I posted on your site. Thanks. Joe

Sighting Time: 

9:30 P.M.

Day/Night: 

Daytime

No. of Witnesses: 

4+

Duration: 

2 minutes

No. of Object(s): 

Single

Urban or Rural: 

Urban

Size of Object(s)

Diameter est. 60ft. +

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

about 200ft. +

Shape of Object(s)

Sphere

Color of Object(s):

Black, flames, amber-green tail

Full Description & Details

Working at a high class nightclub in downtown San Francisco, California It was a week night and the plush lounge was getting busy with customers. The tables filled up and the cocktail waitresses were busy serving the steady increase of patrons for the night. I was walking by the emergency exit door which like the rest of this 21st story hotels nightclub was surrounded by a panoramic view of the city and shopping district below. The night was clear with no clouds or precipitaion. The moon was not visable from my point of view and venus was not visable either. I noticed that a garbage can next to the door was in danger of being knocked over. so I moved it and then took a break from the busy dining room floor by going into the small prep. kitchen next to the glass emergency exit doors. Across from my vantage point looking outside the cooks small window I noticed that there was three military helicoptors lit up and hovering over the bay next to the bay bridge. They remained motionless as though they were waiting or looking for something. This caught my attention, because over the last few weeks I noticed regular daytime black helicopters running a sentry patrol over the water. It seemed odd, but I brushed it off as military excercises. Two helicopters would head towards each other pass side by side and then pass each other going in the opposite direction. Like guards on patrol at the gate of a building. This came to mind as I now watched these lit helicopters at night before the sighting. I told the cook "hey, don't those look like U.F.O.'s?" The cook said yes, but I new they were not and I was just making a joke about them. I went back on the floor and then stood by the exit doors looking out the windows at the objects above the bay. I felt that these were not military exercises, but brushed it off and as I was about to go back on floor of the club to work I stopped and for some unknown reason looked up out the window and to my upper right. That's when the U.F.O. appeared flying over the roof of the hotel from behind my perspective and entering the forground of my vision. The object was a black sphere that was covered by flickers of flame that peeled themselves from the surface of the objects body and then disapating in the sky only to be replaced by new flames appearing on the object and again peeling off. It was after a flame came off it that I could tell it was black. It's blackness was darker then the night sky surrounding it. It also had a long variable sized triangular tapered tail that changed length as the object changed directions. After it moved over the top of the hotel ( I was surprized that it navigated so close to the roof, but did not hit it. If it crashed into the roof it would have been a disaster. It moved towards the far background of my straight ahead view to the south. Its path entering from the north. It moved slow and I would estimate it was moving about 20 to 30 miles per hour. It changed it's direction and then started east and returning from the south a bit northenly and into my immediate foreground view. The tail shrunk and then extended itself once more. The tail had a border of green and the inside area of the tail was amber yellow. As it flew from my right side (west) to my left(east) I took a mental stock of all that it was not even the obvious things it was not. I said in my mind. "Is it a plane, a meteor, a missle, a helicopter etc.etc.?" It was Unidentified. I also noticed that eminating out of the objects front were sparks that seemed to be a reaction to the objects forward motion. Like it was energizing the atmosphere ahead of it as part of it's propulsion system. The sparks would appear in front of the object and then shoot forward at it, but then burning out before striking the objects surface. Still moving at a steady speed two of the waitresses came uponm me looking out the window and one told me "What are you looking at Joe?" I thought of what kind of answer I could give her, but opted for the truth. I told her " A U.FO..

She began looking and said wow in a dazed manner. Then another waitress joined her. I stepped back away from the window, I became scarred and it was surreal to see the waitresses in front of me and this object out in the sky past them. I snapped out of it and ran to the kitchen and I told the cook to check this out. I then went back to the windows front and watched it till it flew past the hotel directly across from us. The waitresses went back to work and as I began to, I hesitated and could not believe what I had just witnessed. I knew from my look into ufology that I had just been apart of history. So I stood there looking out the window in disbelief and shock. Just as I walked away from the window I was the one who ended up kicking over the trash can. I scooped it up and reset it and began to head out to check the tables for dirty glasses that needed to bussed back to the bar. I thought to myself "Wait a minute-after what I just saw the job can wait." I returned to the window and considered what I had watched. Then I justified it as being a meteor. Even though it could not have been after the way it moved of it's own volition. I laughed it off and then with a smile and a last thought that it was'nt a U.F.O. it was a meteor - it had to be. That's when it abruptly zipped back from about the same angle that it had been obscured by. This time I watched it solo and I said to myself not to take my eyes off it, because this is my second chance to admire it's truth. The fireball U.F.O. took a sharp incline heading straight up and moving with a shorter tail as it climbed in elevation while I watched. Then without warning it excellerated to an unimaginably fast speed that made me think it would easily break orbit and I would get to watch it go off back to space. Just when I thought that it came to a dead stop with not even a bit of drag. Since a body in motion stays in motion unless it has something to stop it. What stopped it's motion. If it was a meteor how could it do that? What's weird is it was like it did this in a reaction to my mental thought of them not being real even after all that I just saw. Then it just remained hovering high in the sky, but only about a couple of hundred feet above the hotel across from us. As it hovered it pulsed or vibrated. With flames still flickering off it, it seemed to be angrey with my disbelief. I captured a clear sense of malevolence and superiority. I felt like we are all nothing to them accept to what ever aggenda they might have for us in their grand experiment. I became conscious of the time and that I could get in trouble if I dont go back to the floor. then it took off slowly towards the east again, and not up into space like it was going to do before it stopped. I remember thinking to it-" I have to get back to work. It moved away like it was insulted that I would place my meanial job before it's remarkable nature. Then the waitresses passed my position and one became very perturbed at me. She complained that I had been gone for a long time, but it was'nt long as we had all just been standing at hte window. When I told her I was there at the window and she knew this, but the look on her face was like I was lying. Then the other waitress came by and she was also saying I was not around for a long time. I also noticed that what was once a packed section of cocktail lounge tables were now empty seats. Then the bartender for that side of the lounge heard me and the waitresses and when they went back to pick up there drinks I told him I was here. He looked at me as though I was telling a lie. This is the first part of my missing-time episode. The other part came when the house lights got turned on by the manager and we were closing down. Since we close around 1 a.m. on a week night and the sighting was around 9:30 A.M. there was an immediate realization that I can not account for two hours of my time. The next day the cook agreed with my description of it looking like a fireball, but got upset when I wanted to discuss it's U.F.O. nature. The first waitress to join me as I watched it would not even agree that she saw anything (she blacked it out, or did not want to be associated with it, because of her reputation.) and the other waitress agreed with me that it was a U.F.O., but did not want to discuss it further. One last thing that puzzles me is that after it happened I chose not to write down any details for months after. I recall thinking to myself that i did not want to force defintiions of it on my perspective, so I held it instead in my mind. To this day nine years later I can still play it back in my head with an amazing clarity.

Witness Background

Currently I am a college student, but at the time I was a fine-dining waiter. I have studied martial arts, meditation, and before this I had never seen a U.F.O., and I have not seen one since. I am single and have never been married. I love cats and nature. I am learning how to speak Japanese. I love movies and want to make them and am learning how to make 3D animation, which I will use one day to make an animated version of what I saw that night nine years ago.

Other Comments

Prior to the event and after it, I have been an amateur enthusiast of the phenomena. So when I recall my sighting and look at it within the mainstream data currently available I am astonished by the remarkable sequence of events that make up my experience, which includes a vague sense of missing-time. I still have not seen any video sightings that come close to what I saw. I am without a doubt certain that the object I encountered was intellegently controlled by non-human entities(because of objects excelleration and G-force not withstandable by humans) and it gave off a vibe of malevolence that made the intellegence behind it a frightening idea to behold. Although I have no photographic evidence I can strongly make the opinion that WE ARE NOT ALONE. SETI eat your heart out they are here and they are so beyond us in advancement that we are like mere protozoa by comparison. We are millions of years behind them in evolution. Just a vague sense I got as it hovered during my sighting.

Reported Sighting? 

Yes

Reported To: 

friends and family only

Name: 

Joe

Your Location: 

Los Angeles

Age: 

38

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