Occurred: 2001-04-23 22:30 Local
Reported: 2001-04-26 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1-1/2 min.
No of observers: 6

Location: none, CA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

us navy ship see ufo

uss fitzgerald ddg 62 off the coast of sandiego on or about 2230 hour about 700 nm off the coast the brige watch saw a bright light above the ships mast 1/2 mile wide very about 1,000 candle power strong light in a circle it was reported by aft look outto go from big to small then it was gone . ((deleted)) naval officers saw it with 2 other ships in the group... facts at the time there was no moon plus venus was out. fact it was over cast the light went though the clouds . i was on ((deleted)) there was ((deleted)) on the port side. Suddenly above the ship a very intense white light came on above the ship's mast, it slowly faded in to full beam it seemed like and then slowly faded out, after about half a minute to a minute. I would also like to add that we did not pick up any type of contact on our radar's or other sensor's, there was also no noise. Oddly other other ship's in the area, with us did not contact us at all.sea stae 1 to 2 ft. ceiling 10,000 ft. visabilty 10 miles..



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Posted 2001-04-28

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