NUFORC Sighting 162199

Occurred: 2021-02-22 19:00 Local
Reported: 2021-02-23 20:47 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Redding, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

Objects seen with appearance of strange cloud.

On February 23, 2021 my son and I were out on our back deck at about 7:00 p.m. (PST). We were looking to the north east and the sun had been down for about an hour or so. It was relatively clear out. The temperature was a comfortable sixty degrees. We wore light jackets.

We had been fooping around and my son looked up to the sky. He saw an odd looking cloud in the sky. He asked “is it just me, or does it look like something from another world just crashed?”. The cloud extended clear from the eastern horizon nearly to the western horizon. It was shaped like icing squeezed from a piping bag across a dark blue cake. We wanted to take pictures of the odd looking cloud so I got out my phone to take a picture. (Pictures sent to the email in the website).

Then, my son saw a bright object appear but did not see where it came from. Then my son saw the object make a straight path downward, then make a u-turn back up. I didn’t notice this while it occurred and while I was taking the photographs. My son also saw it change shape from a helicopter shape to a bright oval, and then speed away and appeared to change into a bird.

Posted 2021-03-02