NUFORC Sighting 26863

Occurred: 2003-01-02 19:20 Local
Reported: 2003-01-02 20:22 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

HUGE flying craft with 3-5 blindingly bright horizontal lights flying low overhead

I was driving east on the 10 Fwy from Santa Monica towards Los Angeles in the middle of the city and saw a huge flying craft approaching overhead very fast. At first we (my kids and I) thought it was an airplane, but I have never seen a plane fly that low over the freeway before, nor with such blinding lights. I could barely look at the lights, also instead of lights on a (Plane's) wings, we saw no wings but 3-5 lights in a horizontal row with a red light above the white lights. The object got frighteningly close -- to the point where my oldest daughter and I became very scared. It passed over head and away from my line of vision (I was driving). Afterwards we both said we had NEVER seen anything so huge, bright or close. We also realized that there had been no noise.

Posted 2003-03-11