Disk over Canoga Park, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saucer shaped craft hovering near Zody's dept store in Canoga Park
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1980-03-28 → 1980-04-14
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August 1, 2022 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Canoga Park, CA
9:47P.M. Pacific Standard Time, West San Fernando Valley. Seen from the intersection of Hackney Street and Independence Avenue. The object was a ball of VERY BRIGHT white light (just like a star) that at first glance one would think it is Venus only to immediately notice something very wrong here. This light/object was a full four to five times as bright and big as what Venus normally is. Its light flickered in out and just as the light started completely fading out it then STARTED MOVING fast and towards the North. The best reference point I can provide as to exactly where in the sky it stationary would be in vicinity of the star Vega at 9:47P.M. This was NOT Venus. As far as from what location this object was seen, the best description from where it was seen from approximately the intersection of Hackney Street and Independence Avenue, 70 degrees up, towards the East. This is in the Canoga Park district of Los Angeles, California. This was not a drone, helicopter, or fixed wing aircraft. A high flying aircraft flying from the SouthEast to the NorthWest passed right by the same location only 30 seconds to a minute later. There is a good chance the crew in this aircraft saw this object/light in front of them as they were flying directly towards the same area where the object was floating.
June 1, 2021 · 9:56 PM · LIGHT
Canoga Park, CA
The object was moving in a NorthWest to SouthEast direction above from approximately the intersections of Parthenia and Canoga to Roscoe and De Soto. The object can be described as a very bright looking star. I looked and listened very closely for wings, rotars, and jet engine sounds. This UAP did not have any signs whatsoever of having any conventional design. This was NOT a star or a drone. This was not the front light of a jet airliner. This was not a satellite or the Internatiinal Space Station.
July 4, 2019 · 9:04 PM · TRIANGLE
Canoga Park, CA
It was on Fourth of July. I was having a conversation with someone outside and I saw three bright light in the sky that was line up straight from the top to bottom. And did not move or any flashing until I saw one that made a tear drop that caught my attention because I thought it was a shooting star, but it wasn’t it’s like a teardrop then the three bright light made a triangle shape and it was a perfect shape! I was recording it and it was at night. I thought it might be a drone or fireworks but it wasn’t that. I couldn’t explain but we all saw that and i couldn’t explain how it works or what it could be.
May 2, 2017 · 1:15 PM · SPHERE
Canoga Park, CA
Black object way up in the sky. Way higher than helicopters normally fly and moving way to slow to be an airplane. Had red and white light slowly blinking on and off. Object moving northward then just vanished. No trace. Now there's what looks like a HUGE craft hidden in the clouds directly above the valley. Moving very slow. Southwest bound.
November 7, 2015 · 6:05 PM · OTHER
Canoga Park, CA
3 of us watched a bright light emit greenish gas as it slowly traveled North in the Western sky between Canoga Park and Santa Monica in the sky. It left behind a large cloud roughly several miles wide that kept spreading while the light moved northward. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 6, 2013 · 6:05 AM · LIGHT
Canoga Park, CA
Very bright white light, even glowing object, the size was about two 747 airplaines nose to tail.