SIGHTING: SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I would normally have never bothered to report this, but this is the first time I have ever encountered something I couldn't identify having lived in Marin County all my life- and I saw that someone else also reported seeing it at the exact same place and time on this site. I was dumbfounded enough that I pulled my iphone out and attempted to record it while driving, then took the next exit and pulled over to record it for a few minutes. I was certain that I would figure out a logical explanation for whatever it was after observing it for a few minutes, but I have NO clue as to what it could be, so with that, its an Unidentified (steadily) Flying Object. It was around 530-6pm and I as was driving from Marinwood to HWY 101 North, I saw this big circle of solid light, above the hill area that borders Marinwood /Ignacio . I thought it may just be the moon, but the moon rises from the East and you can always see it over the St. Vincent's area- plus it began to move! It slowly moved North and I barely took my eyes off it as I drove to the next exit to go to Safeway, trying to record it. I pulled over and took several pictures and recorded a few minutes of video as well. In the photos there is an airplane nearby, and you can see that the airplane moves from frame to frame- but this object does not. I will try and figure out how to send the video and pictures of it, but I haven't yet.

[UFO Hunters update (2014-03-04) : witness sent some pics and a description]:

As I was driving from Marinwood towards HWY 101 Northbound I noticed a bright white light in the sky, over the hills that border Marinwood and Ignacio area. Because I frequently check out the night sky on my Planets App, I was trying to figure out what planet this was. But the more I looked at it I realized it was too close to be a planet. As I drove, it slowly moved. When I took the next exit, I looked up and it was just hovering above the mountain line. Right when I was about to dismiss it as some kind of plane…… I see an actual plane, flying up from the South heading towards it. It then looked as though the plane needed to drop to a lower altitude to go underneath it. That’s when I grabbed my iPhone and took some pictures and then recorded it so I could try and figure out what this “thing” was. I was sure I'd find some reasonable explanation, but haven’t. What’s more surprising is that when I did some research on the Internet, I found that other people had also witnessed the object and reported it: in the exact same area, on the same date and time. When I finally got around to downloading the photos, I was upset the quality was poor! But also shocked that the color of the object had changed from the bright white to green…….but even more shocked when I saw these other “orb” like circles around it! I hadn’t seen anything else in the sky that night and even checked my video again to make sure. But in the picture, they looked like they belonged together and seemed to form a pattern and had a sense of symmetry."