Oval over Pasadena, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
it was a plasma craft . It looked just like the pics taken in mex of a plasma craft.
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 1997-10-12 → 1997-10-29
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October 24, 2023 · 12:35 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
At the time of the sighting, approximately 12:35pm, the skies were clear with 10-mile visibility conditions. I was, for a second time today, walking laps around my backyard to stretch my sprained left hip muscle, which is why I wasn’t at work. Now what I’m about to write might sound strange but considering this is my fourth or fifth sighting to leave me baffled, I’ve actually come to expect these types of sightings in my every day life. Specifically in the San Gabriel Mountain area near Pasadena I’ve witnessed dozens of craft that may very well be balloons of some sort since most that I see travel extremely slow and reflect the sun’s white light to appear like stars in the middle of the day. As I paced in my backyard and turned to face the mountains, a dim gray-colored craft flying west to east caught my attention for some reason. It seemed to be at or above 30,000 ft traveling as fast as a plane, but I like to test things now by “transmitting” a telepathic thought out; something along the lines of, “If you can hear me, stop and reverse course.” I then used a helpful technique of finding a nearby tree branch as a reference point to not lose sight of crafts flying through cloudless skies. I followed this first plane-like object with my eyes, taking small steps toward my left to keep it in my sight as it flew eastward. Then it stopped mid-flight and I immediately thought, “Of course, another balloon about to drift in a new direction.” Then for the next 3 to five minutes it remained stationary, and gradually grew so faint that I lost sight of it. Nothing spectacular, but I’ve learned the hard way that an initial disappearance does not signal the end of the experience. Patience is key. I scanned the same area of the sky for another couple of minutes before a craft reflecting or emitting bright white light at the same altitude and speed of the first came into my view. “Must be a plane,” I thought as it approached the spot where the first craft had vanished. Suddenly the second UAP begins circling that very spot in the sky. I’ve never seen a plane exhibit bird-like behavior and make full tight circles within a few seconds. My immediate thought was, “Nobody will believe this,” since I had left my phone in the house and couldn’t record video. As I became fully aware of what I was witnessing, the circling craft started emitting smaller white flares at different points perpendicular and outward of its circular path. I counted four flares in the first four “orbits” and then it circled for at least another 3 or 4 loops before continuing eastward like a regular plane for one or two minutes before I lost sight of it behind the neighbor’s tree. Of course, I “transmitted” a message of thanks before I lost sight of it. I went back inside the house and on my laptop, visited RadarBox.com to look up any possible flight using the playback history feature but nothing stood out to me that matched what I had seen.
October 16, 2023 · 1:25 PM · RECTANGLE
Pasadena, CA
My husband pointed out the object in the sky as we headed East on the 134 approaching the 210 freeway East in Pasadena. We agreed that it was not a plane. It did not move. Appeared to be rectangular in shape. Clearly white in color. It just disappeared without traveling. During the day, sun was over our car. About 15 seconds duration of our observation.
May 1, 2022 · 3:06 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
At around 3:00pm, I walked outside to take my dog on a walk when I spotted 3 star-like objects over the San Gabriel Mountains moving slowly but something about their movement caught my attention. I had seen similar stationary light sightings frequently during the months leading up, but since these were moving I immediately called for my dad to come outside and observe them as well. By the time he came out and I started to record on my iPhone, there were two lights left. One seemed to hide behind some clouds over the mountains but the last light kept traveling into the clear sky so I decided to record it. I expected it to drift like a balloon, but once I began recording it started zigzagging as if to evade my eyesight. I had on sunglasses which made it hard to see anything on my phone due to the lighting. It was a bright sunny day and my phone screen had a glare under its shadow as I was pointing it directly up over the roof of my house. So I was mostly looking at the light in the sky and only taking occasional glances at my phone screen. I move my phone in an attempt to mimic the movements of the light so as to keep it on the recording screen. The light appears to accelerate and stop suddenly at sharp angles before "disappearing." The moment it disappears, I was actually looking at it in the sky, not my phone screen, but coincidentally, my phone goes out of focus at the same time. When it focuses again, the light reappears, however I had already lost sight of it which is why I stopped recording. Basically, it tricked me into thinking it had vanished or taken off.
February 6, 2022 · 12:08 AM · OTHER
Pasadena, CA
Just After midnight February 6, 2022 a flying craft that looked like 4 linked blocks hovered over Pasadena CA, pulsing yellow light, moved a short distance west, hovered again, then traversed west. It was utterly silent. I ran inside to grab my iPhone 8, shot some photos.
May 21, 2021 · 7:05 AM · CYLINDER
Pasadena, CA
It looked like a plane flipping upside down at first. It would glide, then flip over with sporadic bright flashes of LED looking lights (the sun was still shining) that took up half of one side. I saw it flip over again, but this time it was end over end. I couldn't tell what was the top or the bottom. It was in the east sky heading north.
October 20, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
I work on the corner of Lake Avenue and Cordova in Pasadena, CA. I left work last night about 21:30 and headed North on Lake Avenue to the 210 Freeway entrance. As I neared last stoplight on Lake where the freeway entrance is to go East, I saw a man on the edge of the sidewalk to the right of me (300 block of N. Lake Ave.) with his right arm outstretched toward the West sky, his palm was open. I looked up to the left and saw a group of four round orange lights in a quasi-diamond shape. The lights seemed to be moving slowly and I could tell they were moving in my direction from the west to the east. The lights were definitely unlike anything I have ever seen. The stoplight turned green and I normally would get on the 210 freeway to go East. Instead, I turned right on a frontage street called Corson and pulled over to look at the lights. Once I stopped, I could see the lights were still moving in my direction but now two of the lights separated from the other two and went straight up then disappeared. I grabbed my cell phone and took a short video capturing the two remaining lights in the center of the screen. Visually, the two lights looked like they weren’t moving anymore, like they were hovering. I then realized I was parked in a red zone on the side of a street in a not safe place (homeless people, dark area) so I got in my car and headed home, getting on the freeway at the next entrance which is Hill Ave. When I got home, which is about 17 miles east of where I started, I could not see any lights and do not know what happened to them. At home, I watched the short video and noticed the beginning of the video captured the second of the two lights that went straight up and disappeared.