UFO Over San Francisco

UFO Over San Francisco, March 26, 2004

By Dave Eriqat
It was back around the year 2000, and one night I was gazing out the window of my San Francisco apartment, admiring the city lights, when I observed a mysterious, perfectly spherical, orange-white, glowing orb moving, or rather floating, directly toward me. My apartment was high on a hill and overlooked both the city and San Francisco Bay. When I first noticed the orb it was over the bay, but it traveled deceptively quickly: one minute it was over the bay and the next it was seemingly about to crash into my apartment! Its shape and silent, graceful, floating motion was like nothing I had ever seen. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing through the catalog of aircraft patterns housed in my brain, but there was nothing in there that matched the glowing orb. This glowing orb was definitely something new, and even its close approach didn’t help me identify it.
When it looked as though it could come no closer without crashing, it abruptly turned to my left, toward the city, revealing itself to be an ordinary blimp festooned with thousands of small lightbulbs. Seen from the front it presented a perfectly spherical orb, but seen from the side it was clearly an elliptical blimp. My thrill dissipating into disappointment, I sat down and allowed my heart return to its normal pulse rate.
I found the above photograph on a site called UFO Evidence, which hosts a treasure trove of UFO photographs. I selected this particular photograph because it closely depicts what I saw. The view of the city in this photograph is similar to the view from my apartment, although my apartment was higher up the hill and my view was less obstructed by buildings. And while this photograph is nowhere near as clear as what I saw – I honestly feared the blimp was going to crash into my building, it was so close – the oblong shape seen here is not unlike the elliptical profile of the blimp I saw. And the color is the same as that of the blimp I saw, as near as I can recall.