Triangle over Goleta, CA
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The report, as filed
Black Triangle, 5 white lights over Goleta
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2011-03-17 → 2011-04-03
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January 5, 2020 · 7:45 AM · SPHERE
Goleta, CA
On Sunday January 5th 2020 at about 7:45 PM. There was a white sphere hovering over the ocean. Object could be seen from the beach in Isla Vista and from the hills in Santa Barbara. Was neither The Moon nor Venus. Object was not a plane landing at Santa Barbara Airport either. Object seemed to hover for about 40-45 minutes and then proceeded to enter the ocean quickly and abruptly. There was a plane flying around over Isla Vista doing several loops for about 20 minutes when this object was in the air. That pilot might have been aware of the object and extremely likely the pilot witnessed the bright white sphere hovering out over the ocean. We could not judge distance or size of the object due to the black night sky other than we can say it was over the ocean. There is video footage of the object taken from the hills of Santa Barbara. Unfortunately the person filming did not take good footage and the clip is short and at times out of focus. Very curious if an! ybody else saw this object. I have yet to find any info or reports on the object. I am versed in astronomy, physics, and have flown planes. When first observation of the object, we suspected a helicopter or plane, yet the characteristic of the high degree of intensity of the white light and silence factored a more curious examination. Watching the object fly into The Ocean convinced me it was indeed a UFO of some sort. I have combed the Internet for any reports of the object. The only thing found was a youtube video that left much to be desired. So I am logging this report into the database.
March 15, 2018 · 11:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Goleta, CA
I observed this craft from a high mountain range elevation. Looking south this massive craft was hovering just above the cloud line. Approximate size would be that of intercostal container ship. Surface appeared to be rough, similar to basalt. Large square chunks composing the entirety of the mass. This was an incredibly powerful sighting and I could feel its energy. I could not believe what I was experiencing. I just stared and watched for what seemed like 5 min. Then time became a little fuzzy and then it was no longer there. I was fortunate to experience this but it has left me incredibly confused due to the lack of similar sightings. I have nothing to relate it to.
May 20, 2017 · 1:40 PM · OTHER
Goleta, CA
Weather conditions are cloudless, minimal haze, 5 knot westerly wind. While in between games at my daughter's softball tournament I had a very brief thought of the 12 different anomalous flying objects I witnessed over a nine week period last fall. This thought prompted me to have a glance at the sky. All I saw was blue sky and one jet ascending out of LAX. A moment later I looked up again to the east and saw what at first thought seemed like four helium balloons ascending separately a few hundred feet apart at an estimated 500 feet elevation.three appeared white and one had a dark metallic color. Their trajectories at first were consistent with helium party balloons. After three or four minutes watching the objects had receded from orb shape to point light sources and three of the four collard a convergent path while the fourth remained at a distance. It was at this point that I expected the objects to appear as black dots and plane out with the upper level! winds if they were balloons. Instead they appeared more and more as light sources getting continuously further away. After ten minutes of continuous watching the lights were not discernible. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 7, 2016 · 8:00 PM
Goleta, CA
In the past two months, I have witnessed no fewer than nine anomalous objects in the skies above Goleta/Santa Barbara. Three of the sightings were daytime and six were at night. The daytime sightings included an object that shifted in appearance from circular soap bubble to jet shape to white ovoid over the course of three minutes and another that appeared as a small plane missing its wings, while the third appeared as a lenticular cloud just offshore on an absolutely clear and cloudless day. In over thirty years in the area I have seen lenticular clouds only once (over the coastal mountain tops of course). The night sightings included; one close up of triangular shape approximately 1000 feet overhead that seemingly accelerated into the outer atmosphere, the second had no discernible shape in the dark but had two amber lights of magnitude -4, fore and aft, flying at prop plane speed, the others were point sources of white light moving at unusual velocities (not satellites) or flashing (again, not satellite flashes which tend to be slower and periodic in their changes of magnitude). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 9, 2016 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Goleta, CA
My daughter and I were driving home at dusk heading west. I was telling her about the virtues of looking up quite a lot. One sees all sorts of things; bugs, birds, stars, satellites, etc. I decided to glance up out of the side window of the car and saw an aircraft seemingly triangular in shape. The dusky light made it difficult to discern an actual shape. There were three lights on the object; one on the nose of bright white magnitude -7 appearance, one at each "wingtip", port side red, starboard side amber, each of similar magnitude to the front light. At first the object seemed to be a fighter jet at an approximate altitude of 500 ft traveling directly over the suburb of Goleta. It traveled over the top of our vehicle on a banked trajectory at which point I told my daughter to look up and out of her side window. She immediately located the object and noticed that only the wing lights remained visible but in a matter of seconds appeared white in color. There were no flashing lights. The object's trajectory became due north and, instead of planing off as a typical jet aircraft will do, the object seemed to maintain a strait line up at about 10 degrees and continued due north becoming seemingly a hundred miles away in a matter of thirty more seconds or so. It eventually curved a bit before disappearing still well above the northern horizon. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 26, 2016 · 7:35 PM · OTHER
Goleta, CA
I was finishing dinner at the backyard table with my son and a friend's son. At 36* elevation looking NNE a flying object was traveling approximately 500 mph at 30K ft. or the radial ratio equivalent at an unknown altitude. The trajectory was east, just touching on south. This is directly toward Pt. Mugu from my location in Goleta. The object had a front and rear light of equal brightness magnitude -5, brighter than Venus at maximum, amber in color. There was no noise associated with the object. At first it looked like a low flying jet with landing headlights traveling sideways. I did not observe any flashing lights or the red and green wing lights so obvious to anyone on a flight path. It did seem as though there were smaller lights in between the two large ones but I couldn't really tell. The object ( lights) faded away after about one minute. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD