Driving south on Interstate 5 near Carlsbad, California, I encountered a silver disk-shaped craft hovering about a mile ahead, just past the Palomar Airport exit at roughly two thousand feet altitude. At first, it gleamed with a solid silver sheen, then shifted color, turning whitish before becoming almost translucent, before vanishing completely into the sky. This uncanny display reminded me of the futuristic visions from the old Buck Rogers serials of the 1930s—both beautiful and surreal.
The aura surrounding the craft added a haze that enhanced its mysterious presence, captivating me for the brief ten seconds it was visible. This wasn’t my first encounter with such a phenomenon; about a year and a half prior, I spotted a nearly identical craft while on Palomar Airport Road in Carlsbad, just three miles from this location. That sighting offered a different perspective, and I noticed no lights on the object then.
Such moments fuel fascination and wonder for those drawn to the unexplained. The fleeting yet vivid transformation of this disk-shaped entity in Carlsbad’s sky continues to intrigue, posing questions about what truly inhabits our skies just beyond the rational eye’s grasp.