Cigar-shaped UFO seen in
Berkeley
USA, California, San
Francisco city skyline, night (View
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George Doyle
By: Patrick J. Kiger
Published June 8, 2012
Berkeley, California
occupies a hallowed place in science fiction lore, as the place where author
Philip K. Dick spent his adolescent years contemplating the dilemma of
distinguishing between what is real and what is imagined.
But for another Berkeley
writer, the free-thinking bohemian mecca in the East Bay area is the place
where he saw what may have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft late in the
evening of December 14, 2011.
The man, who chooses to
remain anonymous, had just left a Berkeley coffee shop and was walking down San
Pablo Avenue toward Cedar Avenue just before 11:00 p.m., when he suddenly got
an urge to look up at the night sky.
“Immediately I saw something
moving fast, directly crossing into the moon’s glow,” he recalled. “My first
thought was that it was a meteor but before I could even complete that thought,
it changed.”
The witness saw what he
described as a massive craft with a cigar-shaped body, with two red lights on
its rear section. “It was moving really fast,” he wrote. “Faster than anything
I’ve ever seen. And it was
completely silent.”
The witness was unable to
estimate the craft’s precise altitude, but says “it was not up that high” and
that it was descending rapidly at a sharp angle. Then, just as rapidly,
it disappeared into the clouds in the night sky. The entire sighting lasted
only about four to five seconds, he later estimated.
The entire time… I stood
there asking myself ‘What the [deleted] is that?’” he explained. “I have
seen shooting stars and meteors. While there is a chance that this was a
meteor, it didn’t look like one. There was no streaks left in the sky, there
was nothing protruding outward from this at all. Only two red lights, and this
thing looked like it was firing towards earth.”
While the witness already
was inclined to believe that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the cosmos
and that extraterrestrials possibly have visited Earth and interacted with
humans, he did not automatically assume that what he saw was an alien craft. “I
am a rational man,” he explained. “I want what I saw to be explainable within
the framework of our scientific understanding while at the same time, if I
trust my instincts and the awe, jaw-dropping moment this created, I can’t help
but believe it was something else.”
“It was so brief and
brilliantly impressive,” he said.
Unfortunately, he notes, the
area where the witness was walking was deserted at that hour, so there probably
were no other witnesses in the vicinity.
However, the NUFORC database
does include a report of a sighting three days later in nearby Berkeley
Hills. In that report, two residents were sitting on a porch at about 8
p.m. when they noticed a trio of unusual lights in the sky.
“At first, I thought it was
wonderful to be seeing three planes at varying distances at just such an angle,
the unnamed person who filed the report said. “Then they did not move and they
were changing colors --red, blue, yellow, orange, green, if I remember
correctly. They began moving at sharp angles and sometimes seemed to come
together.”
The East Bay area was the
scene of a famous UFO incident on the night May 20, 1977, when three
adolescent boys in West Pittsburg saw an object resembling a flying saucer and
equipped with red lights land near them. The boys reportedly fled when unknown,
robot-like creatures walked toward them, surrounded by smoke and vapor.
Local police interviewed the boys and found that separate interviews, they all
told the same story. UFO investigators probed the area, but were unable to find
any additional physical evidence of the visit.
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