Triangle over Lancaster, CA
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Triangular craft flies over highway... low altitude... then disappears only to reappear later
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-01-09 → 2005-01-26
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September 6, 2021 · 7:56 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
This unidentified flying object gliding through like a fireball and then dissipated out of the sky like a light bulb Lights out as it was gliding away. There was only one unidentified flying object gliding in the sky. The color of this flying object was like a red orange colored fireball, sought of like an oval shape object. The background skies was dark night, recorded from the grounds. Location direction facing South East from the back yard of the address submitted
October 11, 2020 · 11:11 PM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, CA
I grabbed my Galaxy 10 plus phone and zoomed my camera up to it, and held my camera still. This ball- like shape was now seen to spin and leave an aura of light around it, and it would spin out of my camera view, though holding it steady, to make sure I wasn't moving it. Then I'd find it again, and it would move again, sometimes moving very fast in a zipping motion and fast speed. I filmed it, then was freaked out a bit, and sat down at my table to watch it, and a light bulb burned out in the small chandelier above my table, freaking g me out more..lol.I sent it to several friends, but most were sleeping, one was up and said they hoped it wasn't a meteor.I said a meteor or satellite even wouldn't move like this, zipping, and moving that way. First time I am reporting this, but have seen these fast lights before, and there were many of them in a small group..never caught them on camera tho.
July 26, 2020 · 8:05 PM · OVAL
Lancaster, CA
Last night on July 26, 2020, my wife and I decided to head out to the desert south of the town of Mojave to observe the comet. We found a great spot just north of Lancaster and about 5 miles south of Rosamond on a small wadi on West Avenue B just off of Sierra Highway. It was a very clear evening with just some haze in the west. We set up an evening camp just in time to watch the sun set. At about 8:05pm or so, as we were digging into dinner, my wife said “Look at that, out to the west”. I looked and saw what almost appeared to be a dark cloud among some sunset haze. I looked closer through the small binoculars we brought with us, and it looked like a wide pyramid, with a top that almost billowed (may have been the clouds/haze). It appeared to just hover in the sky, about 20 degrees up from the horizon. We used a mountain range between us and the object to observe. It never moved or changed shape as normal clouds do. It definitely looked out of plac! e and like a firm, fixed object. I saw what looked to be two small aircraft moving around the shape (just below it and moving right to left). My wife did not see these two smaller objects, despite looking through the binoculars. We observed for about 4 minutes, and then it seemed to “disappear”. It may have been from the haze/clouds. Then about 2-3 minutes later, again, my wife said—“Look! Over in that direction!” I looked over to the northwest, just to the west of the town of Rosamond, and I saw a black orb just above the horizon. It was moving west to east, about 300 feet over the horizon and descending slowly. It was moving at around 300 knots estimated (I am a retired Navy Fighter Pilot and civilian pilot with nearly 4,000 hours, so it is my best guess). It was about as big as a Jeep Wrangler and moving silently. It appeared to fly over the town of Rosamond. It never slowed, only descended slightly to about 100 feet above the ground after it passed well behind us. As it moved past, it appeared not only as a black ball, but also almost hexagonal, like the child toy that you used to plug different shapes into. There were no lights that I could see until it was directly behind us, then a reddish/white steady light (not anti-collision or position lights like on a normal aircraft). Since it appe! ared to fly over Mojave and the airport, my guess is that it was about five miles to the north of us. Then, we lost track. I went to my Jeep to get some things out of the back, and my wife called and said that the first large object was back in the west and that now there were two of them. I looked through the binoculars, and sure enough, the original object was in the same exact spot that it was before and flanked by another similar object. We watched them until the light faded, roughly another ten minutes or so. In their place once it the light had faded enough where they were no longer visible, we saw a single distinctive single light right at their exact location. This light remained for about 15 minutes. We left our evening camp spot at around 9:45pm with nothing else significant happening (aside from a pretty good view of the comet).
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
This object look like a fireball coming towards us from the West in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, it looked like it was coming straight at us at first and then was going straight across the sky in front of us not at a very high altitude, looking like it was burning and sparking the entire time it was in our site it looks to be maybe 50 miles to the north of us, and as I stated it came all the way from the Western Horizon as far as we could see and we watched it pass in front of us all the way to the Eastern Horizon as far away as we could see until it was out of sight. But it maintained the orange sparking Fireball round shape the entire time and we watch this or at least 15 to 20 seconds. The object was more orangish red in the middle and a sparking yellow orange around the object. I would really like someone to contact me so I can speak with somebody about this.
September 28, 2017 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Lancaster, CA
As it moved towards me, I realized it was a really big drone and instead of it flying horizontally, with 4 legs, like a turtle, it was vertical, like a turtle walking upright. I said again, do you see that drone right there? One friend stood up and I stood up and walked outside. Just then the object went straight up, extremely fast, and disappeared. Nothing in the sky was obstructing my view.
September 10, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, CA
Possible sightings of "twinkling" stars?? PD