NUFORC Sighting 173804

Occurred: 1993-06-01 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-08 21:07 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: La Mesa, CA, USA
Location details: 4585 Palm Ave.

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

"Red Orb" followed me to my home...

In approximately April/May/June of 1993, I was heading west on La Mesa Blvd. in my 1984 Isuzu Impulse. I came to stop at a traffic light at the intersection of Jackson Dr. and La Mesa Blvd. (specifically the 8800 block of La Mesa Blvd in La Mesa, California).
As soon as I pulled up to the traffic light, from my driver’s window, I saw a solid red colored “ball” or “Orb”. The object was moving slowly in an easterly direction in the sky not too far from the intersection for which I was stopped. What struck me odd was the object was TOTALLY SILENT and moved in a way I have never seen any aircraft move (30 years later and I still haven’t seen any aircraft move like it). There were no beacon lights of any kind, just a “solid red orb/ball” with an ambient red glow around it. The weather was overcast that night and I vividly remember seeing the red glow of the object light up the adjacent sky around it as it moved. I cannot begin to estimate the object’s speed, but it was moving slowly (as if it was scanning the landscape below it). As I sit in my car in complete awe of the craft, I witness the craft immediately change direction and slowly move itself west and then come to a stop. The change in movement had no momentum to it, in other words, I didn’t any inertia involved. It was utterly fascinating. When the object changed direction from east to west, it almost appeared it was on a “track” in the sky. The craft’s movement were the most precise I have ever seen any object move.
It should be noted that this was an unusual “dead” or quiet night in La Mesa. Meaning, I was the only car at the intersection at the time I saw the craft. For some additional context, La Mesa, CA is a small bedroom community located in San Diego County and is considered to be a part of San Diego’s “East County”, which encompasses cities such as El Cajon, Santee, Lakeside, Alpine and others to the east.
When the object changed course from east to west, it appeared as if it was specifically watching me. I say this because of how the object moved. It just hovered with zero sound and appeared to be observing me as I was observing it. At this point, I don’t believe I was more than a quarter of a mile away from the object, certainly not more than a half mile away.
A short time later, the light turned green, I proceeded west down La Mesa Blvd. At this time, I became spooked. As I begin to accelerate, I noticed that the craft didn’t immediately move. However, shortly after I started to drive down the street, the craft began to move west with me. I came to another very small intersection and the craft stopped with me, the light turned green and as I started to move, the craft also started to move. As I continued down La Mesa Blvd., I came to a street called “Palm Avenue”. I pulled off to the curb and noticed that the object also came to a stop in the sky. I remember just watching it to see if it would move, it didn’t. Close to my home at the time, I decided to just drive home. I made a left turn and proceeded down Palm Ave.
It should be noted that Palm Ave is a very long street. As I drove down Palm and came to its first stop, I noticed that the object hadn’t moved with my car anymore. I continued along Palm and noticed the object in the sky just hovering in the same exact spot. At this point, I remember thinking, “Gee, wouldn’t it be something if the thing was directly over my house?” As I continued down Palm Ave., the object was getting closer or growing bigger as I was driving directly towards it now.
Soon I got to my house and made a left turn on Palm Ave. into my driveway and was absolutely stunned to see the object was DIRECTLY over my house in a straight line! At first, I thought, maybe this was an optical illusion. Soon I would learn that the object was truly directly over my house and had been seemingly waiting for me to arrive.
I immediately ran into my home and grabbed my mom’s VHS camcorder and ran outside and began video recording the object. Now in 1993, camcorders had no semblance of “optical image stabilization” or “optical steady shot” as we have today. I was able to record the craft and even submitted the footage to my local news station. However, the news station told me that the footage was too shaky and unusable.
After about 20 minutes of “hovering” over my home, our neighbors across the street came outside as they wondered what I was looking at in the sky. About 5 or 6 of their family came out on their porch. Not long after, the object slowly moved from my house to my neighbor’s house and hovered over them. The craft hovered over their house about the same time as it did mine, for about 20 minutes. Then the craft began to move to the north in a slow fashion, at the same speed as it followed me. It went a lot higher, and a small cloud passed it and it completely disappeared without a trace. The cloud formation was small, it didn’t just extinguish its light, it appeared to completely disappear.
It should be noted that some of the family is still living from this incident and I keep in contact with one of them. Also, a well-known dentist at the time, Dr. David Hornbrook, also witnessed this object in the sky at the time. Later research revealed that this object may have also been seen directly over Camp Pendleton, the USMC base in San Diego, CA.

Posted 2023-03-06