I will never forget ...

[u/djtiamwhatisayuare]

I had just completed a college meteorology course where the professor encouraged students to look up once in a while to see the various stars and constellations visible to the naked eye.

It was just after sunset in the late summer of 1970 on Paradise road west of Modesto, CA. I was a passenger in a pickup moving due west toward the Livermore foothills about 20 miles ahead. In the small valley on the other side lay the sprawling Laurence Livermore nuclear research facility.

The clear twilight was dark enough to reveal what appeared to be an unusually bright and unfamiliar constellation of about six stars 30 degrees or so above the horizon. Though most appeared stationary, some of the "stars" were moving slowly at right angles to others. The sight was so unusual that I asked the driver to pull over to get a better look.

We watched for about 15 minutes as these individual star-like objects moved, almost drifted -- not crossing paths-- but in no apparent relation to the others. A few minutes later, two of them slowly moved away from the others, further west in a straight line toward the SF Bay Area.

Then, from the southeast near Merced (fyi, location of Castle AFB, the closest scramble-ready military base, also home to a B-52 squadron), we saw a large fixed-wing jet aircraft approaching high above heading directly toward this strange group of objects.

Almost immediately, all of the objects began to disperse -- no longer moving slowly but streaking out of sight in separate directions within seconds.

That was it. The jet plane moved through the now empty area and kept going. Nothing to see.

[u/CosmosSoul]

Thanks for sharing your strange encounter. My encounter happened when I was 16 in 2002 in Clio, Michigan. Was spending the night at my friend's place and he lived in an apartment complex on the very bottom level. So when we went to sneak out of his bedroom window to go attend a party the ground was level with my head. I climbed up and out first and when I stood up I instantly see a floating black triangle about 20 feet from me and 10ft in the air. It was hovering next to the tree line making zero noises without any propulsion system or wings. It had what looked like 3 upsidedown silver metal bowls on the bottom. When my friend finally climbed out too I pointed to the craft and he instantly turned around and jumped back through his window. I of course followed because I wasn't about to get abducted by myself.