Fireball over Laguna Niguel, CA
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The report, as filed
bright flash like a comet
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 2008-02-03 → 2008-02-20
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June 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Niguel, CA
I stepped outside to have a cigarette with my girlfriend and she said what is that light in the sky? It appeared to be an orange fire orb, circle in shape with no flashing lights and completely silent unlike a plane. Best way I can describe was almost like a low pulsing circle flame. The cloud layer was super thick and a break in the cloud allowed for this low flying fire orb to come through the cloud from the direction of the ocean and head northeast. The fireball flew what appeared to be extremely low, lower then any plane and then appeared to speed up and continue below the clouds for apprx one min and them disappeared off in the distance. I only say disappeared because the flame went out making the orb no longer visible. Approximately 30 seconds later another fire orb appeared at same altitude but much faster across the sky, them 2 more fire orbs back to back with the same altitude equally spaced apart came across the sky. All four came from the same direction and had the same exact formation as the previous fire orb, I have never seen anything like that. Complete silence with a bright light in the sky visible and then just disappeared as if the fire flame was turned off. At first I chalked it up to a flare from a military plane but the more i thought about I realized that flares don't follow each other back to back across the sky in the same formation and exact same direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER
Laguna Niguel, CA
US Navy missile launch. PD
June 29, 2014 · 3:42 PM · SPHERE
Laguna Niguel, CA
I was sky watching on June 29 in the morning with binoculars & calibrated the zoom when an airplane passed by. I then saw an orb pass the plane & followed it until it was gone. I thought since I saw this one, maybe there's a decent chance I'll see another if I hike up the hill near where I live & bring the video recorder. I was up there for a few hours & saw one other orb that was larger, slower & I believe closer for a short time. I took some videos of planes passing & there really wasn't anything very exciting. Then again, I could hardly see the screen in daylight, even with something I brought to cover my head with the screen. I wrapped it up & went home. Then dropped the footage in a video editor. I viewed a short clip of a plane in the distance that was a bit shaky & short, I was about to hit the delete button, then thought first I'd zoom in on the plane first. I'm glad I did wow. I saw an object facing the pilots in flight, but then thought it might be a speck on the lens or screen. So I continued looking frame by frame & the object was still there. When I toggled through the frames, the object appeared to be blinking. I was still not convinced because it was faint. But then, on ONE particular frame, the object got very bright & much larger with some detail. My jaw literally dropped, I gasped & covered my mouth. I submitted it on a popular video site. I show it in the editor including placing some textures to show it & some frame by frames. It's quite amazing. I thought this could be quite a big deal since the Malaysia flight 370 disappearance. Also, while I was editing the video, I was listening to KFI radio & they announced that there was an "accidental chute deployment" which was causing the plane to have to be diverted from going to John Wayne Airport, which is where this plane & UFO were headed. When you view the footage, clearly there is no way the pilots didn't see what was right in f! ront of them. So maybe we got this on radar? At least at the ! very minimum, the pilots MUST have told the control tower what they were seeing. Maybe that flight diversion was on purpose to avoid a danger like what happened to the Malaysia plane?
June 18, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Niguel, CA
We live on a hill with about 200 degrees visibility of unobstructed skyline from the mountains to the ocean. On June 18, 2014, I went to bed at 8 pm with a headache. I looked out the window and saw a bright orange light in the sky, which at first glance I assumed to be the moonrise, a bit south of east. I realized the light wasn't as large as the moon. I then thought I was looking at a plane flying in my direction, since it appeared not to move. But it was a single large orange light, not the multiple white and/or red lights of a plane. After about a minute of bright stillness, it seemed to collapse in on itself and disappear. It was odd, but I thought maybe it was a weird reflection, or projection or a helicopter. I dismissed it and fell asleep. I'm an artist, with a vivid imagination, and so didn't take the sighting seriously. At 1030 pm, I woke up and looked out the window. To my surprise, the same light was there again. My husband walked into the room and I asked him to verify what I was seeing. He agreed that it looked like an incredibly bright, fiery, unmoving orange ball and was nothing he'd seen before. A software engineer by trade, he is also unrelentingly logical. As we watched, another orange light appeared to the north of the first. A few seconds later, the first light went out. I got up and got my binoculars and looked at the object. I couldn't see much detail--it was a large ball of fire, unmoving, with smoke trails. My husband looked through the binoculars and saw the same thing--an unmoving fiery ball with smoke trails. He took a video with his iPhone, showing one light going out after another has appeared, but the video doesn't portray well the size, brightness or orange color of the lights. A third light appeared further to the north and the second light went out. When the third light went out, no other lights appeared and we went to sleep. There is a military base about forty miles to the southeast of us, so our assumption is that it is unknown military tech, but we have no expertise in this regard.
November 19, 2013 · 7:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Laguna Niguel, CA
Three Orange Spheres in a Rectangular Cluster with a Pulsating Sphere on the Right Side
May 9, 2013 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Laguna Niguel, CA
Two bright reddish orange lights moving slowly over Laguna Niguel.