NUFORC Sighting 36950

Occurred: 2004-05-14 22:00 Local
Reported: 2004-05-14 23:38 Pacific
Duration: 1minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

It's Friday night and a beautiful night in Santa Monica. So we decided to go with our three dogs upstairs to our apartment roof top and watch the stars. We were laying on deck chairs facing the sky. My dog was on my lap and she could not take her eyes off the sky. Looking passed her gaze, I saw five huge spheres in the distance silently gliding rapidly and gracefully above me, having come from the direction of the pier. I was struck at first watching them. Then I alerted my boyfriend and he saw them too. We watched them as they headed north out of our view. At first thought we both thought they were bubbles. But, no way they were too big. Then balloons entered our minds, but no way. They didn't move like balloons. They were in formation and they were gliding rapidly in a straight line (faster than the planes in the sky) in uniform across the sky. They gave off no noise. They weren't giving off any reflective light. They were transparent, but they clearly had a shape to them like soap bubbles.

Posted 2004-06-04