Los Banos, California A Large Cluster Of Grayish White Orbs

Posted: January 11, 2008

HBCC UFO Research Note: Kim and Sylvia McKelvey would like to know if anyone also witnessed these objects on the date given in their report. If so would you please contact me so I can pass the information along to these folks. Thank you, Brian Vike

Sylvia McKelvey's Report:

Sunday, August 28, 2005 11:15 A.M.

Sunny morning, clear sky, no clouds, hot weather, approximately 100 degrees F.

Location: Driving west on Hwy 152 towards Los Banos, CA

Terrain: Large agricultural area. Miles of flat farmland, in all directions. No nearby hills or mountains.

Observers: Kim and Sylvia McKelvey

Duration: Less than 5 minutes.

We were returning from a weekend trip to Oakhurst, CA. We turned of off Hwy 99 and on to Hwy 152 heading W towards Los Banos. My husband Kim was driving and I was in the passenger seat of our GMC Yukon. I was looking out my window to my right and spotted what I thought was a large commercial airliner going west, I am guessing at an altitude of approximately 15,000. As I continued to watch the plane, which was keeping pace with our car, it completely disappeared from sight. I thought that it was strange and mentioned what happened to Kim and we both looked to see if it was still somewhere around us. Neither of us could find it and we dropped the discussion all together.

About 10 minutes later, again to the right side of the road, over a vacant field I saw a large cluster of grayish white orbs floating in unison at about 1,000 feet up. I immediately motioned to Kim to pull the car over to take a look. At first sight they appeared to me to be almost horizontally elliptical in shape, like a football, with small black areas on the ends. They then appeared to rotate upward and became round – orb like. We counted 12 orbs in this group, which appeared the size of white aspirins from our distance. As we continued to watch them, the grayish white orbs flowed back and forth and up and down and some rotated around each other. They came together in a tight group and then stretched out horizontally distancing themselves from each other as they continued to bob up and down. At times a group of 5 orbs would rotate upward while the other 5 moved in a down direction and then they would come together.

With your arm extended strait and upward the group was the size of a fist. They appeared to come closer to us and then back away, in what we estimated was approximately 200 to 500 feet from our car. I grabbed my small Nikon Cool Pix digital camera in hopes of capturing something on film. I was still in the passenger seat with my window down. Kim had gotten out of the car and came around to my side. While we continued to watch, I saw something that appeared to whip out behind the cluster. In what I can only describe as a gray/ white cloud “puffing” from out of the atmosphere and into sight, a cloud like object appeared to the right of the cluster and began to come directly towards us. We estimated it was less than 1,000 feet high and it too was the size of a fist with arm extended. The object moved very quickly and stopped and changed direction as it continued to come towards us. As it came directly over us it moved in almost humming bird fashion with 3 stinted moves over our heads. As I looked up under the object, which now looked like a white elongated cloud, it appeared to be somewhat transparent, yet it had form and I could see something that resembled a fine black colored grid or spine of some sort in its middle. Kim thought it looked like an ameba with a tail.

Or something like a jellyfish. It passed over us and then it accelerated at great speed out of our sight. We then turned our attention back to the orb cluster, which was beginning to move away from us to the North. As I watched the orbs formed in a straight line, resembling a string of pearls with the ends turned up resembling a semi-circle. They then disappeared into the sky. In all this we were not able to hear any sound coming from them due to the fact Hwy 152 is very busy and the noise of traffic passing behind us was constant. We do not know if anyone else driving saw this object, but certainly no one else pulled over.

I was able to snap five pictures. Two of the pictures captured the objects. One picture was of the orbs and the second was of the cloud like object coming towards us.

Obviously, we were highly excited about this sighting and actually was surprised that we felt no fear at all, only amazement and awe.

Yet there was more to come.

Sunday, August 28, 2005 12:40 P.M.

Conditions: As above.

Terrain: Winding mountainous freeway.

Duration: Driver 15 seconds, passenger 1 minute.

After the sighting, our thoughts and continued our drive into Los Banos, where we stopped for lunch and made notes about what we had seen. We were in Los Banos for about an hour and then we got back on Hwy 152 going west towards San Jose. I was in the passenger seat once again and Kim was driving. Hwy 152 goes along one side of the San Luis Reservoir and through Pacheco Pass in the mountains. As we began to climb and go around the mountain curves I again was looking out the right window. I caught sight of a commercial airliner traveling west over the pass. As I looked at the airliner I was amazed to see that the plane was not alone! There were two large white orbs keeping pace with the plane. One was under the bottom of the plane and to the rear, and the other was above the tail section. I pointed once again for Kim to look, and Kim leaned forward to see the same objects following the plane and keeping pace with it. We were stunned that we were having another orb sighting, especially so soon after the first. In reference to size, the Orbs appeared to approximately, 1/5 the size of the tail rudder and were completely round, and again grayish white.

We estimated the plane to be at approximately 10,000 feet as it appeared to be on approach to the airport and was fairly easy to see. One orb stayed below the plane and to the rear, while the other orb bobbed up and down and side-to-side over the tail section. I don’t believe the pilots or passengers could see the objects as they were at the rear of the plane. We were only able to observe the plane and objects for about a minute until it cleared the mountains and out of our sight.

Kim's McKelvey's Report:

August 28, 2005 11:15am

Sunny day no clouds with visibility at least 30 miles, around 100 degrees F.

Location: West bound on Hwy 152 twenty miles east of Los Banos California a busy highway with lots of traffic that day.

Terrain: Flat open central valley farm land. No nearby hills or mountains.

Observers: Kim and Sylvia McKelvey

Duration: Less than 5 minutes.

While returning from a trip to Oakhurst California we were driving west on Hwy 152 twenty miles east of Los Banos California when Sylvia noticed a small whitish cylindrical object in the sky. As she was watching it, it disappeared before her eyes. At that time I was told of the observation and we discussed it in some detail. About ten minutes later she reported to me that there was a cluster of orbs in the sky so I pulled the car over got out and went to the passenger side where I saw a slow moving cluster of what looked like orbs with dark centers moving south in our direction. I noticed a single object moving towards us that first looked like a foot ball shaped object grey/white in color and seemed translucent. It was as big as your thumb held at arms length. Sylvia saw it leave the cluster changed shape and as it passed overhead it looked like an ameba with a slight tail. The object was grey/white in color and appeared to be translucent like a jelly fish. As it passed overhead I was looking through some power lines and thought it was around 1000 feet but I really had no reference as to how large it really was. As I was looking strait up It accelerated suddenly to a high speed and I lost it in the glare of the sun.

By this time the remaining cluster, which was coming in our direction, had reversed direction and moved off to the north where it disappeared. We were able to get one digital picture of the cluster and one of the overhead object however it was out of focus. The cluster was about the size of your fist held at arms length.

August 28, 2005 12:40PM

Conditions same as above.

Terrain: winding mountainous freeway.

Duration: Driver 15 seconds, passenger 1 minute.

After stopping for lunch in Los Banos we traveled another 40 miles on Hwy 152 towards Gilroy California. Sylvia noticed an airliner that had two small spheres following it. I looked out the windshield and saw clearly that an airliner had two spheres moving up and down behind the carrier. Since we were now in a small mountain range it was difficult to pull over. Once I was able to pull over and stop the plane and objects quickly disappeared behind a hill. We continued on our way and no longer saw the trio. The airliner was about 45 degrees up and looked like an MD11?. Your pinky held at arms length would just cover the trio. The spheres were grey color similar to the planes. The plane was estimated to be at 10,000 feet altitude since it was fairly easy to see.

Thank you to the wonderful couple for the excellent report.

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