A California witness encountered a blinding light from a "round-shaped object" directly overhead in rural Sierraville, followed by missing time and little recall of driving home to Truckee on August 17, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The encounter began in Truckee, a small town west of Reno, just after 1 a.m. when the witness decided to drive to Sierraville - but had no idea why.
The drive from Truckee to Sierraville is along California Route 89 - about 24 miles. The witness states that the UFO was not seen from a...