THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT

2008: Four Silver Saucers Over Freeport Boulevard, Sacramento

Stepping outside a Freeport Boulevard coffee shop for a cigarette one August night in 2008, a witness looked up at the building’s architecture and instead found four enormous silver-gray saucers gliding directly overhead, close enough, by his own estimate, to bounce a rock off of them. For about three minutes he stood frozen, watching all four pass in silence, no lights, no sound, no exhaust trail, moving at a leisurely walking pace. He thought about following them by car and decided against it, worried he’d hit one of the vehicles routinely parked along the street while he had his eyes on the sky instead of the road. He ran inside and told four people what he’d just seen. None of them believed him. He reported it to MUFON afterward and, by his account, never heard back.

Date: August 12, 2008

Sighting Time: 10:30 p.m.

Day/Night: Night

Location: A coffee shop on Freeport Boulevard, outside Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California (this site’s legacy field data listed “West Sacramento, California,” a distinct and separate city; corrected here — see Editor’s Note)

Urban or Rural: Urban

No. of Entity(s): Not Applicable

Entity Type: Not Applicable

Entity Description: Not Applicable

Hynek Classification: CE-I — Close Encounter of the First Kind. Observation of objects in close proximity to the witness, well within 500 feet.

Duration: Approximately 3 minutes

No. of Object(s): 4

Description of the Object(s): Large silver-gray saucers, passing directly overhead one after another; no lights, no sound, and no visible exhaust or vapor trail of any kind

Shape of Object(s): Saucer-shaped

Size of Object(s): Approximately 50 to 70 feet across each

Color of Object(s): Silver-gray

Distance to Object(s): Very close; the witness estimated he could have “bounced a rock off of them”

Height & Speed: Low altitude, directly overhead; moved at approximately running/jogging speed, estimated by the witness at about 6 mph

Number of Witnesses: 1

Special Features/Characteristics: Witness considered following the objects by car but decided against it, concerned that watching the sky while driving would risk a collision with vehicles regularly parked along both sides of nearby South 16th Street; witness ran inside immediately afterward and told four people what he had seen, none of whom believed him; witness subsequently submitted a report to MUFON and states he never received any reply

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single witness, no photographic evidence, no corroborating observer despite an urban location, and no documented follow-up investigation

Source: Reported directly to Think AboutIt

Summary/Description: While smoking a cigarette outside a coffee shop on Freeport Boulevard near Sacramento City College on the night of August 12, 2008, a witness watched four large, silver-gray, saucer-shaped objects, each approximately 50 to 70 feet across, pass directly overhead in close succession. The objects produced no light, sound, or trail, and moved at roughly walking-to-jogging speed over about three minutes. The witness considered but decided against following them by car, out of concern for the parked vehicles lining the nearby street. He reported the sighting to four people immediately afterward, none of whom believed him, and later submitted a report to MUFON, to which he states he never received a response.

Related Cases: None documented

Full Report

I was enjoying a cigarette outside the coffee shop, no smoking allowed inside. As I looked up admiring the design of the building and apartments above the shop, four large silver-gray saucers flew slowly over my head! I was frozen! I had goose bumps all over me and all I could do was watch as the first object floated by, then followed by three more!

I was so close to them I think I could bounce a rock off of them! They were quite large, about 50 to 70 feet across, and they moved about running speed, which is about 6 miles per hour. There were no lights, no sounds, no trails.

I considered following them but I was scared I would hit some parked vehicles on South 16th Street; it is regularly used for parking on both sides. I figured if I drove while watching them I was sure to crash into something. I ran inside and told four people what I had just seen, and they did not believe me! I later reported it to MUFON and received no reply at all! Go figure! Unreal!

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Freeport Boulevard, 2008 — Close Range, No Corroboration

Location corrected. This site’s legacy field data placed the sighting in West Sacramento, but Sacramento City College’s Freeport Boulevard campus, and the nearby South 16th Street the witness references, are both in Sacramento proper, several miles from West Sacramento, an entirely separate incorporated city on the opposite side of the Sacramento River. The field data above reflects the correct location.
The witness’s decision not to pursue the objects reflects presence of mind rather than embellishment. Weighing the practical risk of driving distracted on a street lined with parked cars, and choosing not to follow, is a small but telling behavioral detail. It reads as a genuinely considered, in-the-moment judgment rather than an account shaped for dramatic effect after the fact.
Immediate disclosure, immediate disbelief. The witness told four people within minutes, while the experience was still fresh, rather than waiting or building an audience gradually; that none of them believed him is itself a common and unremarkable social outcome for this kind of report, not a reflection on the account’s accuracy.
No corroboration despite a public, urban setting. Four large objects passing low and close over a coffee shop near a community college campus at 10:30 p.m. would plausibly have been visible to other people nearby, yet no second witness has been identified for this specific sighting.
No documented institutional follow-up. The witness’s stated experience of submitting a report to MUFON and receiving no response cannot be independently confirmed or denied from the sources available for this entry, but no record of any formal investigation into this specific sighting has been located.

A man stepping out for a cigarette on an ordinary Sacramento night found himself standing directly beneath four enormous, silent, silver saucers close enough to hit with a thrown rock, watched them pass in under three minutes, and then couldn’t get a single person, friend or federal reporting hotline alike, to take it seriously. The case remains exactly what he was left with that night: unconfirmed, and entirely his own.