"We turned the bird towards it, and we started following it. All of a sudden the object, whatever it was, just up and accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared." 

~ Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. pilot Ray Davis

"It was like nothing we'd ever seen before. Two bright circular objects. They continued traveling on a horizontal plane right across the sky." 

~ Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. deputy Robert Carr

"We saw a bright light going across the sky, a cylinder-shaped object leaving a trail behind. Then it separated, and there were two of them.... They were going faster than anything we'd ever seen."  

~ California Highway Patrol officer Lorin Orchard

"I'm doing 80 miles an hour, and it's pulling away from me.  I'm sounding the siren, and it's making right angle turns." 

~ Simi Valley Police Dept. officer 

"I knew they were not aircraft because there were no running lights, no sound. These objects were like nothing I'd ever seen before. I would venture to say that within fifteen seconds they went fifty miles."

~ USAF airman first class Guy Wilson

"I saw these two orange lights come in off the ocean at the west end of the airport. We were just dumbfounded.... I'd say in ten seconds they went at least thirty miles."

~ Los Angeles International Airport employee Mark Hogan

"We're still searching for an explanation. At this point it is still an unknown. The FAA cannot explain it, and the sheriff's helicopter was on the ground at that time."  

~ Center for UFO Studies field investigator Robert Garis Jr.

"This case appears to be an unknown of the nocturnal light variety and having one peculiar detail not ordinarily reported – that of the burning fuel or globules of falling molten material."

~ UFO researcher Walter Greenwald  

"She said in the center of it there appeared another bright sun, a real bright sun... and at that point they became frightened…. She said they stayed there, and it was watching them."

~ Father of child witness

"Seven separate UFO-related incidents in a three-month period, for two investigators who ordinarily may hear about one in six months, seems to constitute a real UFO sighting flap."

~ UFO researcher Donald Weitzel

"They went from west to east faster than anything l'd ever seen…. I knew they weren't falling stars because we had seen them earlier.... These were moving parallel with the horizon." 

~ John Ganschow

"What I saw frightened me.... There were three red lights that moved so quickly from one place to another.... It was like seeing a 10,000 ton ship suspended in the air...."

~ Robert Coffey 

"We saw three round things in the sky. They landed, flashed, and zoomed. One hovered above our car about the height of the telephone wires. It had windows. It lit up the inside of the car."

~ Mrs. Cray

"The next thing I remember is I woke up outside…. I felt very cold and numb all over, like I was dying. I felt frightened. I knew I'd been somewhere and didn't know where.”

~ Anonymous witness

"It must have been a UFO. It couldn't have been anything else.... There was another one over the hospital. It was completely white and had an outline like a saucer."

~ Kathleen Canterino

"The three figures that I saw in that craft looked human, but I couldn't make out their faces.... They looked like flight suits but tighter fitting. They looked down. They knew we were there."

~ K.D. 

"This thing... just hovered right at eye level where they could look right in the windows and everything, see the people inside. It just hovered there for about five minutes and... circled the schoolyard."

~ Father of child witness

"I thought it was a fire, and then I realized it could be a UFO…. After I saw it, I went back to bed and thought about what I should have done. Every time I talk about it, I get shivers down my spine."

~ Cheryl Riddell

"Across the middle was a band of many colored lights, all blinking. We watched it come lower and lower and finally it seemed to land between two small mountains."

~ Anonymous witness

"I thought they were traveling side by side. Low, too. Faster than any jet I ever saw. All you could see was just an object. No sound. I couldn't believe it." 

~ Larry Reeder

"They were attached at first. They appeared to be coming from over the ocean and going toward the mountains. They made no noise. Nothing I'd never seen before."

~ Steve Haas

"It was very eerie, but not frightening, having a type of other-worldly quality to it…. I thought at the object to see if it would communicate, respond, or exchange information with me."  

~ Christen Warwick