Date: July 12, 2025, approx
Location: Tehachapi, California, 8:00(ish) PM PDT 
Observables: Instantaneous acceleration, Hypersonic velocity without signatures, Low observability (it DISAPPEARED)

I just finished this little drawing today and thought I ought to share. I am a lifelong experience of the UFO phenomenon, primarily because I spend a lot of time looking up. I and an avid amateur astronomer and astrophotographer living in between bortle 3 and 4 skies, so I spend a lot of time outside with multiple telescopes and gen 3 night vision goggles looking up and taking pictures of deep space objects (see picture from that night). Every once in awhile I'll see something truly unique that I can't identify, and this is one such case. 

My significant other is a retired Navy sonar technician and is very serious, skeptical person. She of course believes me as her husband about UFOs I've seen, but I had been secretly begging the universe to let her see one with me.... Let's just say I was not disappointed. 

On this night, we were setting up for one of her friends to come join us on a stargazing night. She wanted to try some of my equipment and take a few pictures. The one I took that night of Galaxy m101 is attached as well. We live somewhat near to an airstrip so we are used to seeing planes come in for a landing. On this occasion, the sun was still up but setting, so we had extremely clear visibility to the airstrip and thought we saw a plane coming in for a landing. 

Suddenly it starts doing crazy fast figure eights, left and right across half the horizon in just a couple seconds per cycle. It also was simultaneously doing extremely tight spirals the entire time it was moving in the figure 8 pattern. 

At first I thought it was some local airplane Guy doing fancy maneuvers to impress his Rich old man friends. Then I realized that no single engine little airplane that lands at our strip does things like that. The maneuvers and speed that this object was doing would turn your guts into jelly from the g-forces alone. Neither of us had seen anything like it. 

My wife was trying to go inside at first because she also thought it was a plane doing fancy tricks. I gently grabbed her arm and said "you're going to want to see this" as it got progressively faster. Then a second light appeared directly above it, locked vertically the entire time. The lights did not spin around one another like you might expect if there were lights on the wing tip of an airplane... They were perfectly one on top of the other not attached by any sort of fuselage. 

The weird thing is that anytime she tried to pull away or go inside or ignore the weird thing we were looking at, the second light would dim out and disappear. When she was looking, it would go back to being two lights again... Almost like it was responding to being observed, but this may be a coincidence of timing. 

The weirdest part of all was that after a few minutes of this light show, the object completely vanished in the center of the figure 8 it was drawing. I'm saying there was literally nothing there anymore. Had it been a conventional object with the visibility and illumination at that time, it would have been very visible. It was GONE.

Despite going well faster than the speed of sound, this/these object(s) made no noise whatsoever.

After the sun went down, we got taking pictures of galaxies, nebulae, etc. We all took turns tracking satellites on the night vision goggles, I showed them how to distinguish different types of sky objects from one another. 

About an hour later, AN ORANGE ORB of light came floating through the treetops at the bottom of the hill across the street from the edge of my property. I'm on a hilltop on about 2.5 acres, so this was at the very bottom of the hill a good distance away, but still weirdly close for comfort. 

The orange or up appeared to be floating through the treetops, just skimming the top of them but definitely going between branches. It appeared to be either the size of a basketball or maybe a beach ball at that distance. From our perspective, where the ball of light was could not have been headlights, someone's flashlight, etc. I had plenty of good optical equipment with me and verified it's strange nature through both the binoculars and the night vision goggles. 

None of us really talked about the orange orb despite seeing it. I broached the topic with my wife this weekend who has gone on repeatedly about how amazing the acrobatic object we saw first was... But she doesn't want to talk about the orb. It makes her uncomfortable that something about the size of a basketball was floating in the tree tops maybe a 1/4 mile away from us. 

I wonder if this could be something similar to The Hitchhiker effect. First we saw a "conventional" UFO with definitive observables, then a rather closer encounter with the orange orb.

Sky Spectacle followed by Nearby Orange Orbs while Stargazing