Fireball over Sherman Oaks, CA
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The report, as filed
FIRE Balls moving around inside my bedroom
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 2008-04-14 → 2008-05-01
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October 27, 2023 · 5:54 AM · UNKNOWN
Sherman Oaks, CA
A yellow, unnatural light moving in the Southern Sky moving West to East eventually entering the SouthEasterly Sky at a very rapid pace seemed to stop on a dime upon aligning with Venus, almost using the planet’s bright light as a cover source. I confirmed via ADSBExchange it was neither airplane, nor was the airspace locked down due to rocket or other launch. Also confirmed via Satellite Tracking App that it did not align with any orbiting SAT at that time or angle.
March 1, 2023 · 7:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Sherman Oaks, CA
Right now, I see 2 lights attached to some sort of craft that is sitting in the sky above Sherman Oaks. It has not moved for 43 minutes. There is no noise that would identify it as a helicopter. It is just sitting out there.
October 27, 2021 · 5:51 PM · LIGHT
Sherman Oaks, CA
Two friends and I were hanging out by our pool when one of us noticed the ufo’s. One of us is a high school teacher, and the other two are in film production. We could all see at least 8 objects that were hovering very high up. They looked like tiny dots of light that would flash red sometimes. They moved very slowly, staying mostly together, but sometimes moving closer to one another and sometimes moving apart. Coordinated enough to not be balloons, and not ever moving up, only across, southwest. Also too high and not coordinated enough to be drones. We could see them for about 10 minutes and for a few more minutes we could see only one of them. Not sure if they vanished or went behind the building. No sound was made by them.
May 23, 2021 · 3:45 PM · SPHERE
Sherman Oaks, CA
I was driving east on Burbank Blvd. just west of Van Nuys Blvd. The sky was very clear and it was 3:45 in the afternoon. I looked up in the sky and saw a white, perhaps metallic white(?) object hovering in the sky, perhaps about 10 to 15 thousand feet up. It was not moving and just floating there. Something caught my attention far to the left and I realized there was another identical object hovering as well, not moving, seemingly not being buffeted by the wind. As I drove and kept staring at the first object I noticed, while occasionally looking at the other one to see if it moved (neither of them seemed to be moving) more objects appeared behind the first one. When I say behind what I mean is that they seemed to be higher up in the atmosphere, perhaps 40 thousand feet? Again they appeared white or metallic white, perfectly round and while some of them were remaining still a couple did seem to be moving. One seemed to be going up and the other down, then left and right. Going to state right now I may be wrong on this one as I was craning my neck around and also for whatever reason having a hard time recalling exactly what happened because it felt pretty extraordinary and I am a bit dumbfounded as to why no one seemed to notice these things other me...though I suppose a case could be made that most people when driving keep their eyes on the road, which is the safer choice. I pulled over into the parking lot of a small strip mall and hopped out of my car to take some photos. Because of the glare on my phone and the fact that my phones camera isn't great I wasn't quite sure if I was getting photos of anything. I did end up snapping a few photos of both the original object and the one to its right (my left) and while I could see the other objects behind the original one none seem to have been captured on camera. The photos aren't very good. I hopped back into my car and it couldn't have been more than 30 to 45 seconds before I was back on Burbank moving east and in that 45 seconds (maximum) all of the objects seem to have vanished except the original one which was still hovering in place and had not moved the entire time. So honestly I don't think they were drones, because the altitude would mean these were the biggest drones in the world and that they were spherical, definitely not planes. Perhaps weather balloons or some sort of lantern but again the original one never moved just hovered still and I think even if by some miracle there was absolutely no wind up that high the thing would still bob around or something if it was balloon. One thing that happened that I just don't understand was as I hopped out of my car to take photos I noticed to older men in front of a cafe having coffee and talking. As I took the photos I turned to them and asked them to look and tell me what they think. They smiled, said nothing and then just went back to talking about golf. I don't understand why someone would simply be curious enough to even look. So that's it, very odd, no one else seemed to notice it and I'm stumped.
January 26, 2021 · 3:19 AM · UNKNOWN
Sherman Oaks, CA
At approximately 0315 of 27JAN2021 I was returning to my dwelling and was stopped from the source: perhaps A/C Units or other machinery in some odd sync. s I thought to say “no biggie,” just off to my right began, a somewhat louder and more. This sound played in a higher octave and forced me focus on this chord playing now as whole, in tandem. And No long longer had 5 minutes passed observing this, whan within 30 seconds a bright, thunderless crash lit up the night sky. The high pitch of an intake type of engine, bringing along with them an extra octave to the dual leveled hum that remained until the time I departed. And, i departed at 3:47AM, immediately following some dashlights and AC going crazy.
January 3, 2020 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Sherman Oaks, CA
I was taking out the trash at 9:45pm and I stopped to look up at the moon. Then I saw a dark black triangle with slightly lighter colored circles on the points (but the whole craft was very dark - no lights or anything). I almost didn't see it. It was about 200 feet up and completely silent, flying in a straight line right over me. It lasted about 15 seconds before it flew out of sight. I got the feeling it could "see" me, like it was surveillance.