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Jeff Krause - State Director/Southern California

11/29/2016

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UFO Over the San Gabriel Basin

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Many of us in UFOlogy became interested in the subject due to our own personal experiences. I would like to share the sighting that got me started down this path with all of you.

This was not my first experience with UFOs, however it was the longest, clearest sighting I have had, and it also probably had the most number of other possible witnesses beside myself. You will not likely find any other accounts of this sighting published anywhere, because when it occurred, back in 1979, the subject of UFOs was not dealt with as openly as it is today.

To the best of my recollection, it was around the end of June when the sighting occurred. I remember the events of the evening very well, and what I saw that night would remain indelibly inscribed in my memory for life. Fortunately, I saw this object in the valley where I grew up, and had many landmarks that I was very familiar with for reference in relation to the object. Chief among these landmarks was the San Gabriel Mountains, a Southern California range that runs from just north of Sylmar, to the east where they die out near Desert Hot Springs. The tallest peak in the range, at 10,068 feet, is Mt. San Antonio, known to everyone that grew up there as Mt. Baldy. There is an extensive range of foothills that run perpendicular to the mountains, with a smattering of small towns at their base such as Altadena, Pasadena, Monrovia, Arcadia, Azusa, Glendora, etc., and of course the world famous Route 66 runs along the base of the foothills as well.

This sighting occurred in the north section of Covina, at the intersection of Hwy 39 (Azusa Ave.) and Arrow Hwy, one of the busiest areas of the city. To the north runs the 210 Freeway, and to the south the 10 Freeway, two of the most congested arteries between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. There was a recording studio on the northeast corner where I was living at the time, and on the southeast corner there was a Market Basket supermarket where I would do all my shopping for food and such. Never being one to deal with heat very well, it wasn’t uncommon for me to wait until after dark to eat dinner.

On this particular night I was craving a steak, so my girlfriend and I walked across the street to pick out one that would be good to barbecue around 9 p.m. I’m sure it was a good steak, but I honestly don’t remember dinner because what I saw when we came out of the market was all I could think about for a good long time!

Movement in my peripheral vision to the side, and above me caught my attention, and when I glanced upward I stopped dead in my tracks and had to refocus my eyes to make sure of what I was seeing. Although it was dark out, there was enough ambient light to fully illuminate the underside of a gigantic rectangular-shaped object. The object appeared to be lower than the normal altitude of any aircraft which often flew out of the many private airfields in the area, and surface details were clearly visible due to its close proximity. My best estimate of its length was somewhere around a mile, based on what I saw of the craft after it passed overhead, before it accelerated away, in relation to the streets I know that were under its flight path. Its width appeared to be roughly one third of its length, but as it was directly 90 degrees from me, I am unable to make a guess as to its depth.

It glided silently overhead, and when I realized what I was seeing, my first reaction was to look around to see if anyone else was seeing it too. The parking lot was fairly busy since it was a warm summer evening, and to my joy there were lots of other people looking up too, and it didn’t take long before we were all whistling and whooping with astonishment! My girlfriend and I were firmly convinced at the time that we were witness to a major event, and that it would surely be all over the news that next day. To our astonishment, we never heard a word about it!

The craft continued to slowly glide overhead, at what I would estimate to be around 30-40 mph, until suddenly it appeared to stretch into a line of light from where we were, to just past Mt. Baldy. Then it instantly shrank into a pinpoint of light that then shot upward and was lost among the stars in the blink of an eye. The whole thing could not have taken more than a minute, however it was easily one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in my life, and it instantly convinced me that I could no longer go along with conventional wisdom that dictated “UFOs don’t exist.” That is the one minute that began my career as a Ufologist.
6 Comments
Ralph Tucker link
2/18/2017 09:19:42 am

Amazing recount. My sentiment exactly on that feeling.

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David Lang link
2/23/2017 03:09:30 pm

I would've thought with that many witnesses, there should have normally been at least some letters to the local editors, local radio announcements, something. But there was nothing? That alone is enough to make one really wonder. I guess many people don't wish to be associated with such incidents. Who wants to hear at the "watercooler", "So you saw an alien spacecraft last night, eh?" That alone would be enough to silence the majority of people. That's really too bad. Good luck to you sir!

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allen burton
2/24/2017 02:23:44 pm

Jeff , the object as you described it, was seen by me in the summer of 1973 in Texas along the 2003 flight path of the shuttle Columbia ,but moving east to west at first very slow than gone in a flash ,the shape & size you described along with the exit from sight match , There are a few memory details I saw on the object I saw I wonder if you saw on your object . message me lets compare memory's .

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Jim Langer
2/29/2020 10:34:38 am

In 1979, I saw one in my backyard right in front of me. The next day, according to my friend down the street, there were hundreds of people that saw it all over Elmhurst (IL), including his younger brother. Around two years later that family moved away, and I never heard from them again. Furthermore, I never got confirmation from anyone else that saw it. I quit thinking about it, but then around 10 years later, during a boring calculus based physics lecture, I was astonished when my teacher talked about "right hand rule" to use your fingers to follow the rotation, and then your thumb would point the direction the force would be created from the rotation. Well, I immediately recalled that was the same as what I saw in front of me, years ago in my backyard. The object was around 20 feet in the air, then, it quickly rotated, and went down to around 10 feet, then quickly reversed the rotation and went back up to around 20 feet. I never saw anything like it before or since. I wish I knew what it was. And I wish I knew someone else that saw it. I want to find out about this, but not sure how to find out about this. It would have been great if I never saw it to begin with, because it has annoyed me, and I can't really talk about it without people thinking I'm crazy or made it up (either scenario is not good). I am going to make an effort to pursue it a little further. Again, I feel like a loser, that keeps trying to win at the blackjack table, and going back to loose again. There is no way to find out what that was and I probably will never meet anyone else that saw it.

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yolanda mesquite
5/21/2020 09:28:30 am

DO YOU HAVE MEETINGS IN SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA

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Ruben
11/18/2020 04:52:13 pm

I really do believe I witnessed a UFO mother ship slowly moving from East to West almost hovering. Three families met at one's residence in Bakersfield Ca. That night we all decided to go to bed, some of us slept in the bed of our trucks. I laid awake just staring up at the stars in aw of how close the looked. Slowly the sky started getting black and soon I couldn't see any stars at all. At the same time I heard a low roar like of a jet engine at a distance. I was a bit scared but i popped up to look around and noticed that the sky was pitch black for miles. I couldn't sleep and I guess I was too scared to wake anybody up. After what seemed to be an hour or so the sound of the jet engines stopped and the stars were back out. I think what I witnessed was a mother ship. I didn't see any lights and I thought maybe I was somewhere in the middle of it and couldn't see the outside edges. It had been many, many years before I told my children (which were with me at the time) anything about the UFO encounter. To my surprise one of them said that she saw the same thing but too scared to say anything, just like myself.I notice I forgot mention when this happened,around 1973 to 1977 in May or June. I'm an old man now and i have to say that since my youth and before this event I did believe that there was life in other planets. Years later, I don't recall the year but I saw another UFO in the Palm Desert Ca area. I was on the freeway heading east when i glanced to my left and saw a small plane flying low close to the dunes and I saw a shiny almost chrome like thing following the plane kind of like taunting it back and forth, getting close then drifting back. Then it disappeared. I believed as a kid and I believe now.

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