NUFORC Sighting 13968

Occurred: 2000-09-01 21:35 Local
Reported: 2000-09-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Horizontal column w/ lights traveled across sky,turned around then disappeared.& a starlike object w/in minutes apart.No sounds.

I went outside to my balcony to smoke a cigarette, there were no lights on so the sky was clearly visible. The sky had patches of fog.The first object was just a white starlike light that I viewed flying fairly high into the fog. I continued to watch for a number of minutes to wait for it to reappear on the other side of the fog. It never reappeared. The second object I viewed just about 3 minutes later was cylinder shaped and was flying much lower. It had flashing lights so I assumed it was a plane but it traveled in the clear (not foggy) part of the sky and I expected to watch it pass by until it was out of view yet it turned around smoothly and flew just a little bit more then it completely disappeared and never reappeared. I did not take my eyes off it for one second while I was watching this. A few minutes later a normal plane came by and traveled normally across the sky in the same path as the cylinder with the lights. It possibly was following it. I was completely sober and have never seen anything like that before in my life.

Posted 2000-09-17