NUFORC Sighting 48172

Occurred: 2005-11-18 22:30 Local
Reported: 2005-11-22 23:07 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Lincoln, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere

Three Spheres moving in formation

Friday evening as I stood on my back porch , three round glowing objects suddenly came into vision from behind the limbs of a large oak tree. I live just east of Lincoln Airport in Northern California. they were silent and moving in a perfect arrow formation. They looked to be about 700 to 1000 ft up, (airport pattern altitude), almost overhead of me but a few hundred feet west and moving very fast, apx 300 or 400 knots. They were close enough at first that I could see their sphere structure, but no lines or dots or ribbing or anything, just opaque globes. They appeared perfectly round and exactly alike. They flew like they were a single unit but I could see space between them. There were no lights or twinkles or anything like that. If I wouldnt have been gazing right up there I probably wouldnt have noticed. They were mostly white but ever so slightly orange tinted. Their coarse looked like due north and about 6 or 7 seconds into my event the formation made a slight but instantanious course change of about 5 or 6 degrees west. It appeared to be a perfectly angular turn with no perceptible curve. That really blew my mind. I watched and strained to hear a sound as the formation became so dim I could no longer see it. I never heard a sound. It was really dark, visibility was very good, the moon was rising . The whole thing was over in about 15 seconds. I know what I saw, I just dont know what it was I saw. One other thing that occurs to me,if you check out your maps you will see that at that speed and course they would very shortly be over or near Beale Airforce Base which is a pretty secure base, (SR71 / U2 types).

Posted 2005-12-16