Sphere over Encinitas, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
solid reddish orb, no lights 100 feet up and northbound at about 30mph.
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 2009-04-12 → 2009-04-29
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May 4, 2021 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Encinitas, CA
I've seen these same objects multiple days in a row at the D Street Beach in Encinitas, CA, although most of the other nights it was only one of these multi-light shifting orbs, when last night I spotted 3. The three I eventually spotted were rather far out over the ocean—a few miles and were arranged in a perfect equilateral triangle with the apex the furthest out over the ocean. On other days I've had different friends who also witnessed the object(s) which have looked very similar—a brightly lit, multi-color orb that hovers and sometimes changes in shape, sometimes expands and contracts. And sometimes it is moving up the coast like a bright light. Before last night, 5/4/21, for the last 10 days, I had noticed only one of these orbs but in the same location, near where the star Sirius in the western night sky, which is also near the constellation Orion. The orb appears planted in the sky at about the same height as the normal flight path of the military he! licopters, or maybe a little higher, (which are out patrolling every single night) but the orbs were unmoving and almost disguised as a star. For a long time I didn’t notice it because it looked just like a brightly lit star but upon videotaping, it clearly is not a star. I've also videotaped it with helicopters flying past it, too, and it is definitely different than the helicopters. I've witnessed these orbs on different occasions off the coast of San Diego over the ocean, infrequently now for about a year, sometimes playing with the military, sometimes being followed by them, and sometimes much closer than they were last night, but haven’t made any reports until now. But now the frequency has changed dramatically as they have shown up every night. Last night the orbs were just planted in the sky and the military helicopters were ignoring them. The strange thing is how long they seem to just be planted there without moving—far longer than a helicopter or a drone can hover! , totally without sound, and the strangest part was that they’! ve been planted there for many days in a row. I start to notice them just as the sky gets dark enough. Unfortunately all of my videos are shaky and don’t show the way the orbs are just planted in the sky but the colors of the objects are dancing and shifting—you can see that much. I’ve ordered a new lens and tripod for my camera phone to continue collecting data which is very shocking to me. I was a big skeptic about all of this until I had other witnesses confirm. I fully expect them to be there again tonight. They have stayed in place without moving until I got tired and went home for the evening all of these nights. Last night I don’t recall missing time but I have had contact experiences in the past. The beach here where I live is very quiet and dark and private with tall hundred foot bluffs behind me. I generally watch the sunset on the beach every night and started seeing strange lights a year ago but for a long time believed it was just the military until some very strange th! ings happened—like the orbs sometimes shoot across the sky. I also saw a recent display of 4 or 5 of them together fading in and out disappearing and have that on video as well.
October 13, 2020 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Encinitas, CA
While walking to my car at approximately 11:00 PM this last Tuesday (10/13), my girlfriend and I witnessed a very high-speed, reddish light going North to South along the Pacific coast. The light was rather dim, almost like seeing a fainter satellite traveling across the sky, but with a red tinge to it and traveling much faster than any satellite I have ever witnessed. I could not tell if it was something in the atmosphere like an aircraft or something in orbit like a satellite, but it had no discernible beacons or navigation lights like an aircraft and moved in a straight line for the 10 seconds or so that we witnessed it.
April 15, 2020 · 5:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Encinitas, CA
At 5 am, it was still dark. I looked up and from the northwest, traveling southeast I saw what I thought was a satellite. the more I watched I noticed another behind it, then another and another. I stopped counting at 23. there were more but the sun was rising and they got harder to see. There stayed almost the same distance apart. I saw no navigation lights, there no sound. I could not tell the altitude although it was lower than a satellite as I saw a satellite pass above them. it was moving south to north. the objects were bigger. I noticed another posting on 4/9/20 stating a similar appearance. Although I saw more of them than in the post from 4/9/20, it sounds like the same encounter.
September 16, 2018 · 8:25 PM · CIRCLE
Encinitas, CA
At 76 years old, my first UFO. There is a space between some trees that when I sit on the patio, I can observe the sky for miles...planes all the time...choppers and private aircraft and way up in elevation the big commercial birds. I know the speeds of each as well as the sounds. Tonight, it was WAY different. I was looking direct east, watching a light (per usual) traveling south to north over the mountains (big hills) to the direct east. It was going pretty fast for something observed at that distance...it gained altitude then hung a hard right descended somewhat and made a hard left right toward my position at shocking speed...it was over head and heading due west faster than anything I've EVER seen...and silent. The round light of it was somewhat diffused as if behind clouds but the sky is clear though somewhat bright due to light pollution from the nearby small shopping center. It passed over my 2 story building and beyond sight and would have been over the ocean within seconds going due west. One thing for sure...what ever it was, was BLAZING fast...impossibly so. It was an object...it was flying and it remains unknown. One more thing off the bucket list!
December 23, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Encinitas, CA
Seen over Encinitas boulevard two blocks up the road from Moonlight State Beach. First seen in the southeast corner of the sky, below Orion, but right of Sirius. It moved northwest and after approximately 10 seconds faded from view. It consisted of three white lights that appeared in a rigid formation like on the wingtips and nose of a chevron-shaped craft. No body was visible between the lights, even as they passed in front of a moonlit cloud. The motion of the lights seemed to suggest that the craft was relatively close to the ground, within drone flight range. If it was as close as it appeared to be, the wingspan would be well over 20 feet. It was also completely silent and was definitely close enough to have been heard if it was a drone or an airplane. It moved at a constant speed, fairly quickly, but slower than an airplane would be at that distance. This also happened just over 24 hours after SpaceX launched a test rocket over San Diego, which many reported as a UFO.
January 26, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Encinitas, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD