c.1970 - Malibu, California

In the early 1970's, in the hills of Pacific Palisades, I was watching TV in the family room.

The family room has a large glass window that gives you a view of the Malibu coastline. We often see planes and helicopters flying up and down the Malibu coast with their red & green navigational lights and flashing strobe, so we all knew what they look like at night.

One evening Jim's mother noticed very bright colorful lights coming down the Malibu coastline towards us, there was a telescope that sat by the large family room window and a pair of binoculars.

All of us took turns trading off between the telescope and binoculars. What I saw was a multi-colored (white, blue, red, yellow, green) constant bright lights randomly flickering around the sides of a thick disc shape.

I tried focusing on the inner portion, non-lighted top area, but only saw black. It was dark out, the sun was completely set with no clouds, fog or moonlight.

This object came down the coastline and hovered about 200 feet in the air about 500-800 yards from the shore of Topanga beach, Malibu/Charthouse Restaurant.

From our view, we were looking down on the UFO at an angle, it hovered there silently for a few of minutes, then abruptly went into the water.

Even with the naked eye you could see the greenish illuminating glow from the craft being under the water. It stayed there under the water for a few minutes not moving at all.

When I looked at it through the telescope I could see the pattern of waves going over the lighted sea water, and at that moment his mom freaked out screaming and started calling the Police and Air Force in a panic.

I watched the craft come out of the water and hover, as I was watching it through the telescope, the craft elongated to about 2 times its length.

I couldn't tell if it turned a quarter turn and it was always longer and we were looking at it from the front, or if it actually changed its whole length & size which it appeared to do.

The same bright multi-colored lights were still coming from the sides, and when I told Jim he grabbed the telescope from me, then I was looking at the UFO with my naked eye for about 20 seconds after it elongated when it, in a split second, shot off at incredible speed from a stand still.

It just streaked south towards Catalina Island. I tried to rationalize it and thought it might have been some kind of secret military craft, but it was not.

I came in slow, hovered, went under the water and then shot away very very fast. Since then I have flown helicopters and fixed wing aircraft and to this day there isn't anything that could even remotely function or look like that.

I know what we experienced was probably the most incredible thing I will ever seen in my lifetime, and I remember it vividly.

If anyone else has experienced this event I have seen in that same time period or if there are any pictures or reports, please contact me!

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