Light over Clovis, CA
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The report, as filed
Beam of Light near Strawberry Field
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 1994-03-12 → 1994-03-29
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August 21, 2022 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, CA
Sitting on back porch around 2115, on Aug 21, 2022, in Clovis ,California, watching the sky, relaximg as I do most evenings. I see movement and look toward Cassiopeia, which is in the W shape tonight. On the right arm, headiing E to ENE, I see what struck me as a craft. I thought airplane at first, but the speed was just nuts. I got the inpression it was at high altitude--there was no sound, not even delayed jet noise. It did not have red/green flashers like you see on the fuselage and wings of planes; the craft was just white light that seemed to pulse slightly. I honestly couldn't tell if it was emitting light or reflecting it because of the pulsing. The light flew on a straight path, eastwardly, at a high rate of speed. I never lost aight of it, even though I got the impression it was moving away from my position rapidly. From where I was sitting, the plane moved downward in my view, from the sky toward the mountains in the distance, as it was heading away frim me. Then, out of nowhere, just above the top of the mountains (from my seated view), a bright flash occurred directly in the flight path of the light craft and it dossapeared into the flash. The flash lasted about a second or less, like a hole opened up, or a portal of some kind, just long enough for the craft to enter and close up again. I came in the house, a little shook. Put on some actual clothes, instead of my bathrobe, and went back out at 2130. I saw two fighter jets racing toward where I saw the flash. They circled around a few times, like they were looking for what I saw. I came back in, told my wife, and looked online for ways to report what I saw. Funny! I just scrolled down to answer your additional questions and saw this: There were electrical or magnetic effects, such as a car engine stopping. About 5-10 minutes before my sighting, the power in the house flickered 3 times. It was like the whole house just hiccuped, not like s traditional outage experience. Didn't think that might be related, but there you go.
May 6, 2022 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Clovis, CA
I was walking and noticed a bright ball of light in my peripheral and turned and saw a giant ball of fire. Fiery orange orb light. When I looked into it the light was pulled away and I saw a metallic black craft that blended with the sky. I watched it flying away until I could no longer notice it because it was camouflage with the black grayish night sky.
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Clovis, CA
I just got home from work and was getting out of my car when my attention was initially grabbed by a bright shooting star that I saw in my peripheral vision to the north-west. I looked up and saw another unusual light to the south-west which I then turned to look at. It was a big bright cigar-shaped light. It was travelling slowly and steadily in a roughly north-eastern direction. I have lived near an airport for over 30 years and am used to seeing airplanes and drones but it was immediately clear that this was something that I hadn't seen before. It was a thick line of light. It did not blink or change. It made no sound. I stopped what I was doing to look at it. The sky was clear. I pulled out my phone to record a video but later discovered, to my great disappointment, that it was in picture mode instead of video mode so all I got was one blurry photo. The object was very bright and to my eye it appeared larger and had a haze around it, giving it a halo effect, which was not captured in the picture my phone took. Interestingly the picture also captured a second oddly shaped light which I did not notice myself at the time. I estimate that the object was visible for between one and two minutes. It slowly travelled in a straight line. If straight up is 0 degrees then I observed it from about 45 degrees to the south-east until it was about 15 degrees to the north-west, travelling not quite over my head but a bit to the north of me. Then over the span of about 15 seconds the light slowly and steadily faded out. It seemed like an oddly long time for the light to dim. I continued to watch that part of the sky for another minute. The object was big enough that I felt that I should still be able to see it even without the light but it was as if the object itself had faded away. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
May 4, 2021 · 9:56 PM · FIREBALL
Clovis, CA
I am a police dispatcher and on my night off I observed several objects rising in the sky. The first appeared as one then split into two, followed by a third. They moved quickly in a southeast direction. Around 5 minutes later, 3 more rose and went into a southeast direction as well. 4 more came up and went in a southeast direction. That occurred all within about 10 minutes of each other. At 22:14, 5 more came up and went in a southeast direction as well. They appeared to have a flickering light almost appearing as though it was a flame or fireball. They were round, disc shaped in a white or light silver color but it was reflective as you could see their flickering lights reflecting on them. There were several witnesses to this as well as people running in the street to record and see as well as several vehicles driving in the area to see if we could find where they were coming from. They all disappeared in the southeast sky. There was absolutely no sound to! these discs but could be seen very clearly that they weren't drones or planes etc. Several pictures and videos were taken but certainly do not show the detail that could be seen in person.
December 4, 2019 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Clovis, CA
I walked out of my house Wednesday evening, 12/04/2019, at about 9:55 at night, I got to the edge of my walkway turned around Facing East and saw a rather large ball of light hovering in the sky for a split second, and then shot off to the North at an extremely high rate of speed, and then disappeared.
June 7, 2019 · 1:55 AM · SPHERE
Clovis, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD