NUFORC Sighting 16074

Occurred: 1999-02-15 20:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-01-28 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

Shape: Changing


Dark unlit UFO, that initially looks like a soaring bird then it splits into two crafts.

I was getting out of a boy scout meeting for my 7 year old nephew the house was in a poorly lit neighborhood. I could see lots of stars. I was smoking a cigarette and my nephew had to go to the bathroom and went in the bushes. While we waited to go home, I saw a rabbit and then looked up and told my nephew to look at the huge bird flying above us. I initially thought it was a bird because there were no lights on the object. The craft resebled a wingspan of a bird, long and thin. I thought it was going roughly 20 miles per hour at an assumed distance of roughly 150 feet up. I continued to watch the object while it flew toward the horizon (southeast with 101 fwy, oceanside). The opbject had what appeared to be stripes on each wing and I waited for wings to flap. There was little to no groung wind. After watching the objectgo into the horizon I was confident still that it was just a bird but still watched. Then it did something amazing, the object split in two parts just before it was near the horizon and each part/wing went off in east and west directions until I couldn't make it out in the sky. I was in the Air Force for the past 6 years before the incident and have seen many planes fly in my presence including the B2 and it was definately not a public jet. The object made no sounds, and it was a quiet night. At first I thought it was dumb to report this but then I thought about all the other types of sightings I had seen on TV and thought since mine was different then all of them I should report it. I have made a crude animated gif file of the sighting I have uploaded.



NUFORC Note:

We received an illustration from the witness and will attempt to post it in the future. PD


Posted 2001-02-18

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