Light over Lake Forest, CA
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The report, as filed
A light appeared darted left to right then dissapeared
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-04-09 → 2005-04-26
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October 11, 2022 · 7:59 PM · FORMATION
Lake Forest, CA
5 or 6 crafts changing formation constantly. Speed faster than any airplane. Maybe close to the speed of a shooting star. Except each craft was the shape of a mix of a disk and a toy top. Seemed to somewhat have something pointy on the top and bottom of the craft. Each craft had a yellow light. Moving behind the clouds during the rain. Note there was small amount of lightning from that direction. Did not hear thunder. Just saw a flash before and after sighting. Likely lightning from far away. The craft disappeared quickly behind the clouds. Saw for maybe around 5 seconds. Was on a run up the hill at the sports park. Possibly the only one to have seen them as far as I know. Altitude just above the clouds so maybe 3000 or 4000 feet up. As they moved the formation constantly bounced up and down forward and backward. As if it was a fast paced race.
February 19, 2021 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
Lake Forest, CA
A formation of 10 circular lights traveling line astern, not all equally spaced and appearing to move independently, on a northwest to southeast course flying over Lake Forest, CA near Civic Center. Maintained visibility for approximately 5 minutes before disappearing into the horizon. Confirmed whether there were aircraft or helicopter activity near my position and these targets were not visible on The FlightRadar24 Application at my location or on observed flight path.
August 27, 2019 · 4:45 AM · SPHERE
Lake Forest, CA
just left my house to walk to the gas station down the street. right as i look both ways to cross the street i see to my right, between some tall trees i see a spherical light bounce, came down then went up and away really quick
January 29, 2019 · 4:35 AM
Lake Forest, CA
They seem to be turning and emitting colors, the largest and closest one appears to have 3 connect triangular lights. We spotted them a few years back. The larger one like to hang out in the same spot.
September 7, 2018 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Forest, CA
At approximately 20:00 on 7 September 2018, I returned home from work and pulled into my driveway. A bright blue light in the sky approximately 60 degrees up caught my eye, followed by a bright red light approximately 45 degrees horizontal to the left. Thinking they were too bright to be aircraft, I watched for approximately 30 seconds. The lights abruptly shifted colors (red to blue and blue to red), then disappeared. There was no sound, clear airspace, and no communication/signal towers in the vicinity.
April 22, 2017 · 8:08 PM · OTHER
Lake Forest, CA
Daughter pointed out strange light in the sky that looked crazy to her. I saw it and immediately took out my phone. There were probably 5 or so white lights that flashed from left to right, then right to left, continuously. The sun was not yet set and the lights were brighter than anything possible. It was very long horizontally, moved extremely fast, it was there and gone in less than 2 minutes and made no noise that we could hear. It was not visible by the end of the video. I have the video ready to upload.