10/10/2004: Berkeley, CA, USA

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Occurred : 10/10/2004 15:00 (Entered as : 10/10/2004 15:00) Reported: 2/24/2005 10:54:57 PM 22:54 Posted: 5/24/2005 Location: Berkeley, CA Shape: Unknown Duration: 3 minutes Characteristics: The object changed color
While driving my car in the mid afternoon of a day in the fall of 2004 on HYW 580 East-bound I had just crossed the San Rafael / Richmond Bridge on my way from San Rafael to Berkeley CA. It was a clear day as far as I can recall--little or no cloud cover. Something caught my eye which I first assumed was an airplane. It was slightly (5 degrees maybe?) to the right of straight ahead of the car and maybe a few degrees above horizontal, meaning that I could easily look at it with only a tiny eye movement from where my eyes would be normally while driving. I dont know how to estimate the distance because I dont know the size of the object but if it had been a commercial jet I would have guessed that it was several miles away. If I held my arm straight out this object would have looked the size of, or smaller than my thumbnail. It was silver in color. The shape was indeterminate and I could not make out wings, a tail section or any features for that matter. What first caused me to be particularly curious about it was that it didnt seem to be moving. Everytime I glanced up at it it appeared to be in the same place. Had it been a plane it would have been slowly making its way across the sky but it didnt seem to be doing that. So I continued to look at it for another minute or two while driving. Then, it began to change color, to darken to a grey and then a dark grey. This took about 3 seconds. Then, right as I was looking at it, I could no longer see it at all. It had kind of faded away quickly. I pulled my car over and got out so that I could see clearly and there was nothing there but blue sky. I looked carefully around the area of the sky where I had seen it thinking that perhaps it had moved and I'd lost track of it but I could never re-aquire it. Peter, I dont know why I didnt report this nearer the time it happened. Maybe it was just too vague an experience. Anyway, there it is. I hope it can add to your data. If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them if I can. Thanks and I appreciate your work, ((name and telephone number deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 10/10/2004 15:00 (Entered as : 10/10/2004 15:00)
Reported: 2/24/2005 10:54:57 PM 22:54
Posted: 5/24/2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 3 minutes
Characteristics: The object changed color

While driving my car in the mid afternoon of a day in the fall of 2004 on HYW 580 East-bound I had just crossed the San Rafael / Richmond Bridge on my way from San Rafael to Berkeley CA. It was a clear day as far as I can recall--little or no cloud cover.

Something caught my eye which I first assumed was an airplane. It was slightly (5 degrees maybe?) to the right of straight ahead of the car and maybe a few degrees above horizontal, meaning that I could easily look at it with only a tiny eye movement from where my eyes would be normally while driving. I dont know how to estimate the distance because I dont know the size of the object but if it had been a commercial jet I would have guessed that it was several miles away. If I held my arm straight out this object would have looked the size of, or smaller than my thumbnail.

It was silver in color. The shape was indeterminate and I could not make out wings, a tail section or any features for that matter.

What first caused me to be particularly curious about it was that it didnt seem to be moving. Everytime I glanced up at it it appeared to be in the same place. Had it been a plane it would have been slowly making its way across the sky but it didnt seem to be doing that.

So I continued to look at it for another minute or two while driving. Then, it began to change color, to darken to a grey and then a dark grey. This took about 3 seconds. Then, right as I was looking at it, I could no longer see it at all. It had kind of faded away quickly.

I pulled my car over and got out so that I could see clearly and there was nothing there but blue sky. I looked carefully around the area of the sky where I had seen it thinking that perhaps it had moved and I'd lost track of it but I could never re-aquire it.

Peter, I dont know why I didnt report this nearer the time it happened. Maybe it was just too vague an experience. Anyway, there it is. I hope it can add to your data.

If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them if I can.

Thanks and I appreciate your work, ((name and telephone number deleted))

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD))