Unidentified Aerial Object Sighting
Santa Monica, California, USA

Video Stills ã 2001 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research

Aligning a palm tree to the unidentified aerial object Kris began filming, at first with the camera
un-zoomed (5a). Though high up,  to the naked eye the object looked ‘boomerang’ shaped.
Due to its distance from the camera lens however, even half zoomed,
it initially recorded as a small white dot (5b) 

Date of Sighting: 10/18/99

Time & Duration of Sighting: Approximately 9:30-9:50am

Witnesses: Ed & Kris Sherwood

Location of Observers: A residential neighborhood of North West Santa Monica, California 

Location of Object: It was first observed in a North North Westerly direction heading South South East,
at an angle of about 45 degrees above the horizon, South of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Weather conditions: Clear blue sky (very good visibility 

Details of Sighting:

I (Ed Sherwood) was walking in my neighborhood of Santa Monica, and had just turned the block
when I spotted a very unusual object, high up in the clear blue morning sky. To the naked eye it looked
like a ‘self illuminated’ (casting no shadows on itself) soft white ‘rod’ or ‘tube’, bent at the center,
with rounded edges and ‘scalloped’ sides, slowly rotating clockwise like a thrown boomerang
(5c – 5e). I estimated its length to be perhaps the length and width of a Boeing 707
at an altitude of approximately 10-15,000 feet. 

I watched it for about 3 minutes, expecting it to disappear at any moment. However,
it didn’t disappear, so I rushed home quick, alerted my wife Kris, who then joined me
at a street corner to view the object with a pair of binoculars and a ‘High 8’ video camera

(with a x 360 Digital Zoom). We weren’t disappointed. The unidentified aerial object was still in the sky,
rotating continuously, and travelling very slowly in a straight line, on a course that would take it directly
over our position.

5c

Video Still ã 1999 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research

Full Frame View of ‘Boomerang’ Shaped Object

The unidentified aerial object maintained a ‘scalloped’ edged boomerang shape
throughout the duration of the sighting.

5d	5e	5f
5g	5h	5i
5j	5k	5l

Video Stills ã 1999 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research

Close Up Video Frames of Mysterious Rotating Object

The boomerang shaped unidentified aerial object continuously rotated clockwise,
seeming to corkscrew through the sky.

As I viewed the object through binoculars Kris began filming, succeeding to record a minute
and a half of footage. Kris then passed the camera to me and I took over filming, however, at this point,
in the heat of the moment, I failed to notice that Kris had switched the cameras recording mode
to the ‘standby’ position. Thinking I was recording what was on the LCD screen,
I discovered when viewing the footage later that unfortunately the 5-10 minutes
I thought I had recorded wasn’t there.

To make matters worse, after I had filmed the object for approximately 10 minutes the camera
suddenly and unexpectedly ‘switched off’. As I struggled to turn it back on Kris and I saw what looked
like a Boeing 707 pass in front of the object at a lower altitude, blocking it momentarily from sight,
while making its descent to LAX airport. Unfortunately, we didn’t succeed to film this,
or the last few minutes as it silently passed overhead, but what we did film clearly shows
what passed over Santa Monica that morning.

We watched the object for about twenty minutes until it disappeared from view,
last seen heading towards, and above, an area of Santa Monica called Venice.

ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS:

Throughout the sighting the objects shape and three dimensional form remained the same.
It made no sound and left no contrail.  At no time did it appear to be metallic or show
any reflective surfaces or attached appendages. Also, on at least two occasions through binoculars
I saw the unknown object emit a burst of florescent ‘purple’ light along its length facing the direction
it was turning and traveling in. 

Its flight characteristics; travelling at a constant speed, slowly in a straight line without descending,
while continuously rotating 360 degrees (like a slow motion boomerang), were highly unusual. 

A leading member of the Orange County MUFON Chapter Jan Harzan contacted an air traffic controller
at LAX airport a few days after the sighting and reported that ‘nothing’ anomalous was ‘allegedly’
reported on radar, at the time of the sighting.  This seems hard to believe, since it was clearly
a large object  at relatively low altitude flying in the direction of LAX, approximately seven miles away.
Was the object ‘cloaked’ to radar perhaps, or was a different kind of cloaking in operation?

Finally, just seconds before sighting the unidentified aerial object I ‘sensed’ that there was
an ‘extraterrestrial object’ high up in the sky behind me. In fact, had I not psychically sensed its ‘presence’, 
and turned round to look up, I probably would not have seen it at all, with my back to it,
while otherwise walking home. For many years, since early childhood I have experienced
‘clairvoyant impressions’ of ‘unidentified aerial objects’ (including ‘atmospheric plasmas’,
or what some ‘Earth Mysteries’ researchers call ‘earth lights’) prior to actually witnessing them.
This was the first time I was able to facilitate the filming of one such ‘unknown’ while living in Santa Monica.

Due to the above details and the duration of the sighting, conventional explanations such as microlights,
balloons, parachutes, space debris and rocket stages (etc.), we think can be ruled out,
though we welcome further analysis (if possible) and views.

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Below is a copy of a letter Kris and I sent to a number of local television news desks three days
after the sighting. Although the initial response was encouraging, each news desk quickly fell silent
and seemed to drop the story like a ‘hot potato’, despite our making no reference to ‘alien spacecraft’
or the like: 

10/21/99
 

Dear  **********

Enclosed is a VHS copy of the daylight UFO sighting over
Santa Monica, (filmed earlier this week) with a brief description.

We think it would be interesting to know if anyone else spotted
or even filmed this object, and could offer a convincing explanation of what it was.

Bear in mind that the objects shape and form remained the same throughout the sighting
(something I don’t think a stray balloon, and a very large one at that, would do), while travelling
in a straight line for at least 5 miles, continuously rotating 360 degrees. 

It was very unusual, a true ‘Unidentified Flying Object’.

Look forward to all contact,

Sincerely,

Ed & Kris Sherwood.

Video Image 1973 NASA

Recently, Kris and I came across an interesting piece of NASA footage,
of an unidentified object in space, recorded during the 1973 Apollo 12 mission
to the Moon, that looked very similar to the UFO filmed above Santa Monica.

Commander Charles Conrad reported the sighting and filming of an unidentified object to Mission Control:
"We have, … an object which is in the same place all the time but, … appears to be tumbling, … ah,
we've had it ever since yesterday, and,… it seems to be tagging along with us."

Mission Control offered several possible explanations, including jettisoned
'SLA Panels'; the four large 'garage doors' of an area enclosing the luna module during launch.
When released, these would tend to continue to follow the command module, slowly tumbling through space.
But, wouldn't Apollo astronauts recognize such a large and important piece of Apollo 12?

Indeed, these seemed to have also been filmed during the Apollo 12 flight.
However, a slowly turning panel bore no resemblance to the mysterious 'tubular' 'boomerang' shaped
object filmed; 'rotating' anomalously (especially when viewed frame by frame), travelling in a straight line,
at a high rate of speed, far above the Earth.

In the case of the unidentified aerial object travelling above Santa Monica,
which also flew in a straight line, and continuously rotated and 'corkscrewed'
through the sky, at an altitude that would put any similar sized piece of 'space junk'
on primetime television NEWS, LAX air traffic controllers saw nothing.

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