November 9, 1957🇺🇸Sighting
Anomaly
Sacramento, California: Car fails as driver sees huge egg-shaped object with delta wings
On November 9, 1957, at 12:15 a.m., a driver in Sacramento, California, lost engine and headlights and saw an elongated egg-shaped object with delta wings leaving a bluish trail.
📍 Capital of California, situated in the Central Valley. Starting point of the 1896-1897 Great Airship Wave, where the earliest published reports of the mystery airship appeared in the Sacramento Bee.
Background
At 12:15 a.m. a man driving in Sacramento, California, had his car engine and headlights fail. Looking up, he saw an elongated egg-shaped object with delta-shaped wings, 150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet wide, the wings reaching back to about 30 feet from the rear of the fuselage. It had a bright bluish hue and left a bluish fluorescent trail. The sighting lasted 2–3 minutes. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.