This is just going to add to the general perception that I am crazy, I know, but my wife, young child and I were swimming in our pool in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, on Saturday, July 26 2008, around 4:30-4:45pm when we noticed a very shiny silver object hovering in one position in the sky to the east/southeast of us, possibly over Santa Monica.
We are very familiar with helicopters flying directly overhead and planes from LAX, but this was neither. I am not assuming little green men (we are not so far in flight miles from Edwards Airforce Base), but it definitely wasn't a conventional plane or a hot air balloon or blimp (we have seen the Goodyear blimp and others many times in various places; I have also been "behind the scenes" in the Space Shuttle hangar at NASA's Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center).
It appeared at first to be a rotating X-shape in the sky, but then when we viewed it through binoculars (8x25W; not very powerful) and with our video camera zoom, it looked more like three brilliantly shiny sliver spheres, reflecting the sun's light very brightly (or possibly with its own light source), and all rotating on a single axis - as if the three spheres formed a line that could rotate in mid-air in one spot.
We could see it clearly with the naked eye, although it appeared to move in and out of haze, and was definitely larger and farther away than we thought at first.
It changed position very slightly over the 30-45 minutes that we watched it, then finally moved away at about the speed of a jet plane to the south/southeast. We watched it for so long that we actually got bored videotaping it and missed shooting it flying away.
My brother-in-law, when told of it, suggested that it might have been a research balloon, but it rotated in a way that I have never seen any balloon rotate, and there was no evidence of any kind of anchor line. Also that would not explain its ability to move off under its own propulsion at the speed of a jet.
We have tried to learn more of this sighting online, and our video is posted on a UFO blog, called NAM ET IPSA SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST: Knowledge Is Power, at: http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/07/video-exclusive-my-ufo-experience-ufo.html
There is also video of what appears to be the same craft, shot by a couple in East Hollywood or Los Feliz slightly earlier on the same afternoon, which is posted on a blog called Disclose.tv at: http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/6377/Sperm_UFO__Los_Angeles_July_2
They nicknamed the unidentified flying object "Sperm UFO" because of its unusual shape. Their video is worth watching until the end, because they used Final Cut to blow the image up to 1000x magnification.
Whatever it was, it has certainly caused us to ask some questions over the past couple of weeks. We are also surprised that something so large, hovering over Los Angeles on a very sunny and clear Saturday afternoon, did not attract more attention. Clearly, we could have contact with aliens but everyone would be so bored or unaware that they would just move on somewhere else.
Note: These links have been added later:
There is now video of a silver craft very similar to ours that was shot over Oregon on Sunday, August 3 2008, also in broad daylight, and which is also posted on the NAM ET IPSA SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST blog, titled: Has the 'Topanga Canyon - Los Angeles UFO' Been Sighted Over Oregon at:
Plus there is a large illuminated craft in an online video on iReport, shot a few days before ours over south Los Angeles, which is very different but intriguing. It looks as if it would be hard to fake the video, given the apparent distance of the craft and its movement, plus the fact that the observer zooms in and out to place it in context:
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