Light over Newbury Park, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 bright lights, that maintained equal distance from one another, travelling at great speed, north-northeast,
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 2009-09-05 → 2009-09-22
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November 13, 2022 · 12:33 AM · CIRCLE
Newbury Park, CA
I was driving a friend home from my girlfriend’s house in Camarillo. While driving up the grade, a steep mountain on the 101 connecting Thousand Oaks to Camarillo, I noticed what I had assumed to be a plane also going over the mountain, south towards the beach. I began to realize that the craft was a lot larger, as well as closer, than I originally thought as we got higher up the mountain. As it got closer to the mountain, the lights on it shifted from being horizontal to diagonal. I told my friend that “I don’t think that was a plane next to us.” When we got over the grade I was excitedly pointing south towards the direction i saw it heading in, and she said she didn’t see anything. Then she said “oh, my god,” and pointed east. The lights were straightening out, and it very slowly disappeared over the Santa Monica Mountains- towards Lake Malibuo. Right after it had disappeared over the mountains we had noticed a plane flying above us towards the same direction. However, the lights on this one looked normal from below, it’s altitude was low, and it was flying in the same direction as the UFO. The only photo I have is of the plane flying away.
December 8, 2021 · 1:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Newbury Park, CA
While on my daily walk at about 1:08 pm, an object in the sky caught my attention flying SE. At first, I thought it was the experimental aircraft from the local airport, minus the very loud sound it usually makes. A couple of seconds later, I realize that it is not the experimental aircraft that I often see in the area when it started to rotate about the x-axis as it flew in a straight line. The craft rotated +/- 180 degrees, back and forth, and still maintained its SE heading. I quickly got a glimpse of the structure of the craft when it rotated. It looked like a light gray "T" structure with the bright white sphere at each end of the "T". Then a semitransparent "film", if you will, formed the triangular shape of the craft, encompassing the "T" structure. No apparent form of propulsion and it traveled faster than a commercial airplane. It disappeared over the horizon in about 10 seconds from the time I noticed it. I couldn't tell whether or not it emitted a sound as I was next to a busy street. No other witnesses on foot in the area. A jet liner was flying above the craft in question headed in a SE direction also. A small aircraft in the area headed W should have seen the craft as it headed towards it.
June 30, 2018 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Newbury Park, CA
This incident occurred in Newbury Park, CA on Saturday June 30th 2018. I went outside to move my vehicle from the street to my driveway. On my way back into the house, a blue light in the eastern skies caught my attention. Initially, it looked like an electric blue disk heading west at roughly the same speed as a Cessna aircraft. Judging the object’s velocity, altitude, and size accurately is difficult as there is nothing to compare it to in the 10:05 pm skies. Because this object reminded me of another sighting that I had 6 years earlier, I ran inside, grabbed the 12mm x 50mm binoculars to get a quick glimpse as I wanted to rule out airplanes, satellites, drones, etc. What I saw amazed me. The object looked like a translucent electric blue orb, no defined outline. My GUESTIMATE is that the object was 30-50 feet in diameter and very roughly 1000-1500 feet above me. I then ran into the house, grabbed my night vision monocular and proceeded to track the object. I was tracking its trajectory in relation to the (stationery) stars. To my surprise, the object turned to the south. I concluded that satellites don’t turn, at least not sharply. Then, I remembered that I had a cell phone in my pocket, so I pulled it out a recorded a lousy/shaky video before losing sight of it as it went over the roof of my house. Shaken up and puzzled over what I had just witnessed, I sat in my backyard for a few minutes to gather my thoughts when I look up and I see a red orb in the east heading west, same size, shape, speed, and elevation as the first one. Then, I sat in the backyard, where I have a much better view of the western skies and tracked the red orb with my night vision monocular for about 15 minutes. It headed west. It then turned north and back to the east. Having no clue what the objects are, I started to panic. So, I went inside for a drink of water and to calm my nerves. After a few minutes, I went outside to check the skies to check for additional orbs. Directly above me, I saw a red orb following a green orb. The red orb was approximately 6-8 “orb lengths” in back of the green orb. I took my eyes off of them for about 5 seconds to grab the binoculars and when I looked up the red orb was in front of the green orb by quite a bit. The red orb had stopped, while the green orb proceeded forward toward the red one. When the green orb reached a position that is parallel to the red orb’s position, the green orb stopped and the red one proceeded to move forward. Again, I followed the red orb, but this time with my binoculars, but for only about a minute. I then abandoned the red orb to investigate the green orb, however, it was nowhere to be seen. After the orbs had disappeared, I scanned the skies with my bare eyes for 10-15 minutes when I witnessed something incredible. To the north-north east (NNE) of my location, approximately 1 to 1.5 miles from my location, a blue orb (30-50 feet estimated diameter) ascended from the ground (exact location is unknown as it was dark), in plain view. I immediately called my wife. She came out running and witnessed the orb ascending. We both looked at the orb thru the binoculars as it ascended to the same location where the other orbs had previously been. It seemed to undulate as it rose. It ascended faster than a helicopter, about 2 times faster. This entire incident lasted approximately 40-50 minutes. After this incident, I conducted extensive investigation looking for answers. I searched the internet for local events that involved the release of balloons, local newspapers, local news organizations, looked at the local high school website for weather experiments or other events (high school is closed for the summer), sales events, searched the MUFON and National UFO Reporting Center for new, but similar reports, NOAA website, visited Youtube to see if anybody has posted anything about this specific incident, but no luck. As of yet, I have no answers as to the identity of these objects. Being a scientist, I explored many possible explanations for what my wife and I witnesses. Two possibilities: (1) colored weather balloons with a source of light inside and (2) drones. After careful consideration, I dismissed these explanations as weather balloons don’t stop on a dime, especially when a nearby balloon is in motion. Weather balloons don’t maneuver intelligently. Secondly, drones return to their launch locations. These objects never returned back to where they came from. Large drones tend to be loud. No sound was heard while the orbs maneuvered above us and no sound was heard when the last orb ascended not far from our location. My search for answers did reveal a Youtube video that shows similar orbs that appeared above Newbury Park, CA, some 5 years ago. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/4vk7du7Hekg
June 27, 2015 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Newbury Park, CA
Last night June 27, 2015, was thick marine layer in Newbury Park, CA. It was after 11:00 pm, I was on the internet, and heard a low loud roar outside, like a plane too close to the house. Went outside in the back yard and looked up…didn’t see any plane but saw three what I thought were at first glance very white bright round clouds…..kept looking at them, they were strange and they were not moving and they were too white bright to be clouds, it looked like lights coming through the marine layer. Lights were stationery and I ran to the front yard to look at it better. It’s darker in our front yard. The three lights were there for about six minutes total, and then suddenly, they all three disappeared at the same time. These clouds turned themselves off. I waited and searched the sky for half an hour but didn’t see anything else. Went on the internet and found one other person who saw what I saw just minutes before I saw it and that person lives in Anaheim, CA.
April 20, 2013 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Newbury Park, CA
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August 20, 2012 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Newbury Park, CA
A cluster of gold colored lights in a triangle shape appeared in the sky south of Newbury Park and disappeared about 2 sec. later