Circle over Auburn, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fiery large globe, no tail. Direction of flight: 60 degrees, from south to north. Two-second flight.
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 2006-02-06 → 2006-02-23
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October 5, 2023 · 5:03 AM · SPHERE
Auburn, CA
My husband and I are both 75 years old, retired professionals and have lived in this house for 37 years We live in eastern Sierra foothills of California on 4.5 acres at 1400’ altitude on the top of a hill. I have a view of both east and west from my house. The back of my house has many large decks that have a spectacular unobstructed western view of the valley and west coast hills toward San Fransisco. It is from one of the decks that I viewed this event in the sky looking west. There are no street lights in my neighborhood. We do have some local ground lights from stores about 2 miles away. This particular early morning had no clouds so the stars were very visible. The moon was not in sight. I also live the flight path of Sacramento airport and have flown over my house many times. The time it takes from passing my home to touchdown at Sacramento is 7 minutes. I can easily see the plane lights on their dissent. They are very low. This object that I observed was so high that I thought it was a star. It was obviously not an approaching airplane. AT 4:50am on 10/05/23 my dog started barking aggressively (something she has never done). I got up, went to her cage and let her out. She ran very fast still barking down the stairs to our very large fig tree in the back yard. I was trying to call her in and looked west to the night sky and noticed what appeared to be a star moving very slowly in a horizontal direction from south to north. At first, I thought it was an airplane but because it was moving so slowly, I then thought it must be a satellite until it changed direction and started moving east. My husband by then was on the computer checking our security cameras to see what the dog was barking at. I told him to come and see this light in the sky that was now moving northeast very slowly. Then the object stopped. No movement for a few minutes then it started moving slow again. At 5:03am I got my phone and started taking videos of this light. I then zoomed in (12% as far as my zoom would allow) and to my amazement I saw that it was now an orb and it was strobing multi-colored lights while spinning. The orb itself was white and the colors around the outside edges were green, blue, red, yellow and orange. It started moving again eastward then it stopped again. I took many videos with some being over 2 minutes. During one of the videos the orb expanded to 3 to 4 times its’ size for about 2 seconds then returned to normal size. It did this 3 times recorded on my video. My husband watched as I was video tapping but never did so with his phone. My cat was acting very unusual also by running around crazy on the deck while the dog barked on and off at the fig tree. Very unusual for this behavior. I watched this event until 6:15am when the sky started to lighten up from the sunrise. Also to note, our security cameras did not pick up any movement even though we have one on the deck that points to the dog door that my dog ran out of.
May 28, 2021 · 9:12 PM · FORMATION
Auburn, CA
I was walking in my front yard using a flashlight. I looked up and saw what looked like an illuminated telephone wire. At first I thought my flashlight was lighting up a telephone wire. I turned off the light and saw a continuous line of white lights traveling at high speed, one after another in trail spacing that left a light tail. The formation was moving from my left to right in a SE direction at a very high speed. I followed the formation until it disappeared over the horizon. I heard no aircraft noise following the formation nor did I see a contrail. The image simple vanished over the horizon.
February 17, 2021 · 5:25 AM · OTHER
Auburn, CA
High in the Eastern sky over the Sierra Foothills I observed as I can best describe this as a two long but separate straight string of lights. Like a. Long passenger train might look like at night with all the light showing through open windows. I watch as the first one moved I a north to south direction with a 30 degrees down angle. It took 2 to 3 minutes to make its way out of view but as it did the 2nd one which was identical to the first came into view following the same path and same duration .
October 15, 2018 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Auburn, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Auburn, CA
Craft that looked.like a bright star was seen in the sky stationary and unmoving for appox 3 minutes with starlike rays of light eminateing a great distance from the center in all directions (360) similar to headlights in a fog bank but there is only crystal clear sky at dusk. the intensity of the light began to diminish and the craft slowly lowered.almost. imperceptibly below tree line. i.ran to another location to. get a better view and it was gone but you couls. still see the dissipating rays of light in the sky.
July 25, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Auburn, CA
UFO at 10:30 pm – We live in flight path of commercial aircraft landing at Sacramento Airport. We see many flights landing nightly while sitting in our hot tub. Commercial jets move east to west and make a lot of noise. We rarely see anything moving north to south, (only small aircraft). This was not a small aircraft, as it was huge, low-flying and completely silent. This object/or objects and was many times larger than a commercial aircraft, and it was flying much lower. The object appeared suddenly, as 2 huge bright lights which appeared to be connected by a solid surface. The lights moved in exact unison, with zero noise. There was possibly a third light that was dimmed at the time of the sighting, which would indicate that it could have been a triangle with 3rd light dimmed. Behavior of craft: One light became extremely bright, (brighter than landing lights on aircraft). The second light alternated from medium-bright to dim for a few seconds. Next, the brightest light dimmed and for an instant it seemed as though a third light appeared and then dimmed. The object was huge. We watched it move, north to south for about 2 minutes, and then it completely disappeared while we were watching it. It went from visible to invisible. Poof! … gone!