NUFORC Sighting 79080

Occurred: 1962-06-30 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-11-29 12:54 Pacific
Duration: 1/2 hour
No of observers: 5

Location: Bay Area, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large saucer shaped craft hovering, California, 1962

When I saw a UFO, there were others with me...and we had a long time to observe, as well a very clear view.

It was 1962.. I was 12 years old, as were my two friends.

We were sitting in the back of a car that was traveling, late at night, through Northern California farmlands...a back highway - of which there were still quite a few in those days.

I don't remember exactly were we were...hard to know when one isn't a driver. But about an hour out of the Bay Area...very isolated countryside.

My friend's parents were driving...they both had had a lot to drink ( were alcoholics, in fact...had my mother known that, I would not have been there).

We heard them say, "Hey! Lookit that! A flying saucer"!, and sitting up & looking out the front window, we could see far down the road up ahead, what looked like a big..thing...hanging in the sky above and near an old, closed roadhouse ( or business of some kind).

We three in the back could not believe our eyes.

While the laughing and hilarity ensued in the front seat , we became very serious.

I know we were worried, and did not want to believe what the adults were saying. So as we approached it, we discussed what it was NOT. We were trying to be the adults in that car.

Not aiplane, heliocoptor, tower,clouds, balloon, blimp, lights in the sky...

It was a very large circular metallic (ship was inescapable in our minds, because that is what it looked like) object just hanging there in the sky. The night was clear, and we saw it VERY clearly...it was not far up . It was large...larger than he building it was near.

There were lights around the perimeter, and it was clearly dimensional...not flat. There was also a set of lights, on another, smaller object, that was flying around the big one...but in an irregular, darting manner.

And nothing supported it...it was sitting in the air.

We drove almost underneath it ( not quite, as it was off the road to the left), and the adults stopped the car ( laughing) to look at it.

I think it may have been me who said " Go!! Please go!". All three of us in the back were scared, because we knew we were seeing something that ..should not be.

And we three turned in our seats and watched it recede...for a very long time.

The next day, my friend's parents dismissed it, angrily. Did not want to talk about it....I think they were so inebriated at the time that they did not remember much.

Years later, when I started college, I ran into my friend from the car...we had lost touch.

And the very first thing she said to me - before hello!- was " Do you remember what we saw?" It had affected her as it did me...we saw something extraordinary and not easily explained.

( And Cheri - who saw it too - if you see this,look for me on Facebook using my maiden name - there will be another as well.)

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD

Posted 2011-01-05