SIGHTING: I-5 NORTH - MENDOTA, CA

Witness Testimony

"I was driving I-5 North heading home from Anaheim. Around 11pm traffic slowed down due to road work. I noticed bright lights in the distance on my right side (near the town/land). It started as two lights, one looking to be in the back and higher. They then rotated to straight up/down and went higher into the sky making me think it was a helicopter lifting off the ground. The two up/down lights then changed to 3 lights in linear form. Since it was so dark and I couldn't see a craft object, I then figured it was a plane. It started lowering really close to the ground, but then the lights rotated as if it was a plane turning upside down. At this point, I couldn't figure out what it was since no plane would flip over that low to the ground. It was almost doing swooping and spinning motions, but staying in the same approximate location while the lights kept changing count, between 1-3. I tried to watch it as much as I could, but I was driving alone and had to watch traffic. "